Computational and Applied Math Proseminar

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Arizona State University

Thursday, March 25, 2004, 12:15 p.m. in GWC 110

M. Rahman

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Numerical Approximations of Stochastic Differential Equations and their Applications in Mathematical Neurosciences

Abstract We provide a derivation of central limit theorems for Markov processes arising in the approximation of stochastic differential equations. We include extensions of the results obtained for continuous time processes to the discrete time case with arbitrarily small step size. A new energy interpretation of variance of the limit process is given. In applications, we provide a synaptically generated wave propagation model of theta-network arising in Neurosciences. We show that a relatively large variance of noise ( Markov chain and white noise) sustains the wave propagation in the theta-network. We also investigate the continuous model of the theta-network. Numerical simulations confirm the analysis of the phenomena.

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