John Moriarty
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Mathematics / Boole Centre for Research in Informatics
University College Cork, Ireland
Office: 17 South Bank, Crosses Green, Cork.
Phone: +353 (0)21 4836810
Email: j.moriarty at proba.ucc.ie
Research
I am involved in the following areas of research:
Exit problems for reflectable processes
Exit problems associated with affine reflection groups. With Yan Doumerc. Submitted.
Reflected Brownian motion
On the stationary distribution of reflected Brownian motion in a wedge. With Ton Dieker.
A class of stationary distributions for reflected Brownian motion in polyhedral domains. With Ton Dieker.
A geometric approach to exit problems and reflection of Brownian motion. Work with Marc Yor.
Large scale stochastics
On the free energy of a directed polymer in a Brownian environment.
With Neil O'Connell. Markov Process. Related Fields 2007(1).
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Queues, Directed Percolation and Directed Polymers. D.Phil. thesis supervised by Ben Hambly, University of Oxford, 2005.
Entropy estimation in ecology
A class of nonparametric estimators for the Rényi entropy of a species distribution. With Bart Haegeman.
Metagenomics
Bounds on the distribution of the number of gaps when circles and lines are covered by fragments: Theory and practical application to genomic and metagenomic projects.
With Julian Marchesi and Anthony Metcalfe.
BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:70.
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