Location: room 611 of the Wiskunde building (campus De Uithof) Budapestlaan 6, Utrecht.

Date and time: Thursday, April 15, 2010 15:30-16:30. The lecture is preceded by coffee, tea, and cookies from 15.00 to 15.30 hour in the same room.

Bernstein Functions and Some Applications


Rene Schilling

(Dresden)

Abstract: Bernstein functions appear in various guises in several fields of mathematics such as probability theory, potential theory, operator theory, functional analysis and complex analysis. In this talk we give a survey on the theory of Bernstein functions and some related function classes (completely monotone functions, Stieltjes functions) and bring together old and establish new connections. Applications of Bernstein functions in different fields of mathematics are given, with special attention to interpretations in probability theory.

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