Prof. Dr. Jochen Blath


My research area is "stochastic processes and their applications".

The theory of stochastic processes is, within mathematics, part of probability theory. I am particularly interested in interacting particle systems, interacting diffusions, superprocesses, kombinatorial stochastic processes, fractal geometry and path properties of measure-valued diffusions, as well as applications of the theory of stochastic processes in mathematical genetics, mathematical population biology and statistical physics.
Mein Fachgebiet ist "Stochastische Prozesse und deren Anwendungen".

Die Theorie stochastischer Prozesse gehoert innerhalb der Mathematik zur Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie. Speziell interessieren mich komplexe interagierende Partikelsysteme, interagierende Diffusionen, Superprozesse, kombinatorische stochastische Prozesse, fraktale Geometrie und Pfadeigenschaften von masswertigen Diffusionen, sowie die Anwendung der Theorie stochastischer Prozesse in der mathematischen Genetik, der mathematischen Populationsbiologie sowie der statistischen Physik.


Below, please find some focal areas of my research, together with selected corresponding publications.

  • Path- and fractal properties of measure-valued diffusions and Gaussian processes:

    • Blath, J.; Moerters, P.: Thick points of super-Brownian motion. Probab. Theory Related Fields 131, no. 4, 604-630, (2005)
    • Blath, J.: Martin, A.: Propagation of singularities in the semi-fractional Brownian sheet, Stochastic Process. Appl. 118, no. 7, 1264-1277, (2008)
    • Blath, J.: Measure-valued Processes, Self-Similarity, and Flickering Random Measures, Fractal Geometry and Stochastics IV, Birkhaeuser Progress in Probability, Vol. 61, 175-196, (2009)
    • Birkner, M.; Blath, J.: Rescaled stable generalised Fleming-Viot processes: Flickering random measures,  Electron. J. Probab. 14, 2418-2437, (2009)

  • Stochastic partial differential equations, interacting diffusions and mathematical population dynamics

    • Blath, J; Doering, L; Etheridge, A.: On the moments and the interface of the symbiotic branching model, Annals of Probability 39, 252-290, (2011)
    • Blath, J.; Etheridge, A.; Meredith, M.: Coexistence in locally regulated competing populations and survival of branching annihilating random walk, Ann. Appl. Probab. 17, nos. 5/6, 1474-1507, (2007)

  • Mathematical genetics, genealogies and related inference problems

    • Birkner, M.; Blath, J., Steinruecken, M.: Importance Sampling for Lambda Coalescents in the infinitely many sites model, Theor. Pop. Biology, 33 pages, in press,  (2011)
    • Birkner, M.; Blath, J., Moehle, M.; Steinruecken, M.; Tams, J.: A modified lookdown construction for the Xi-Fleming-Viot process with mutation and populations with recurrent bottlenecks, ALEA Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 6, 25--61 (2009)
    • Birkner, M.; Blath, J.: Measure-valued diffusions, general coalescents and population genetic inference, Trends in Stochastic Analysis, LMS 353, Cambridge University Press, 329-363, (2009)
    • Birkner, M.; Blath, J.: Computing likelihoods for coalescents with multiple collisions in the infinitely-many-sites model, J. Math. Biology 57, no. 3, 435-465, (2008)
    • Birkner, M.; Blath, J., Steinruecken, M.: Analysis of DNA sequence variation within marine species using Beta-coalescents, TUB preprint, 13 pages, (2011)

  • Branching processes and coalescent processes

    • Birkner, M.; Blath, J.; Capaldo, M.; Etheridge, A.; Moehle, M.; Schweinsberg, J.; Wakolbinger, A.: Alpha-stable branching and Beta-coalescents. Electron. J. Probab. 10, Paper no. 9, 303-325, (2005)
    • Birkner, M.; Blath, J., Moehle, M.; Steinruecken, M.; Tams, J.: A modified lookdown construction for the Xi-Fleming-Viot process with mutation and populations with recurrent bottlenecks, ALEA Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 6, 25--61 (2009)

  • Branching-annihilating particle systems

    • Blath, J.; Kurt, N.: On Survival and Extinction of Caring Double-Branching Annihilating Random Walk, to appear in Electron. Comm. Probab., 12 pages, (2011)
    • Blath, J.; Etheridge, A.; Meredith, M.: Coexistence in locally regulated competing populations and survival of branching annihilating random walk, Ann. Appl. Probab. 17, nos. 5/6, 1474-1507, (2007)


Last modified: 26 April 2011.