Prof. Dr. Jochen Blath



Please find below a list of recently completed thesis projects in my group (2008-2012).
There are currently several other projects running under my supervision (some indicated).


PhD theses / Dissertationen
  • Dipl.-Math. Leif Doering: "Fine properties of Symbiotic Branching Processes" (2009)
  • Dipl.-Inform. Matthias Steinruecken: "Multiple Merger Coalescents and Population Genetic Inference" (2009)
  • Dipl.-Math.oec. Wiebke Wittmuess: "Optimization of dynamic consumption streams under model uncertainty" - supervised by Prof. A. Schied (now at U Mannheim) (2010)
  • Dipl.-Math. Sergej Beck (running), joint supervision with Prof. M. Scheutzow (Berlin)

Masters Theses / Masterarbeiten

  • Julia Storm "Discussion of Mod-Random Convergence" (2011)
  • Edo Schinzinger "On Critical Rates of Interacting Particle Systems: Lower bounds for almost sure extinction" (2011)
  • Fadia Almoufi "Fractional Brownian Motion Construction and Convergence" (2011)
  • Daniel Justus "Stochastic Modelling of Neuronal Membrane Potential" (2011)
  • Alexander Beck (running)
  • Andre Stricker (running)

Bachelor theses / Bachelorarbeiten

  • Julia Storm: "Percolation in Dimension Two" (2009)
  • Edo Schinzinger: "The Excursion Process of a Brownian motion" (2009)
  • Miao Huang: "The Ewens Sampling Formula and Applications" (2009)
  • Andre Stricker: "The Kingman coalescent and applications" (2009)
  • Devy Hoffmann: "Galton-Watson Trees and their Convergence to Reflected Brownian Motion" (2009)
  • Alexander Beck: "The Wright-Fisher model and ancestral processes" (2009)
  • Robert Schweitzer: "Construction and properties of the Lambda-coalescent" (2009)
  • Christoph Lieke: "Construction of Super-Brownian motion" (2009)
  • Katja Goethling: "Stochastische Modellierung und Preisbildung von Temperaturderivaten am Beispiel einer aisatischen Option" (2010)
  • Julia Finke: "One-dimensional Random Walk in Random Environment" (2010)
  • Stephan Kadow: "Recurrence and Transience of Random Walk and Brownian Motion" (2010)
  • Lars Kaldewey: "The Self-Avoiding Random Walk" (2010)
  • Carolyn Boeger: "Random Walks and Electrical Networks" (2010)
  • Beata Mazur: "The Wright-Fisher Model And Its Ancestral Process" (2010)
  • Robert Scholz: "Clustering versus Coexistence in the Voter model" (2010)
  • Albert Haase: "Computing Hausdorff Dimensions of Galton-Watson Fractals" (2011)
  • Julia Eichner: "Fluktuationen von Ordnungsstatistiken" (2011)
  • Konstantin Gregor: "Three random graph models and their applications" (2011)
  • Patrick Ngono Abe "Exchangeability and de Finetti's Theorem" (2011)
  • Ngoc Dung Do (running)
  • Matthias Cronjaeger (running)
Diploma theses / Diplomarbeiten
  • Johanna Tams: "A modified lookdown-construction for the Xi-coalescent'' (2008)
  • Elena Munsch: "Generalized coalescent models and tests of neutrality'' (2008)
  • Jan Clausen: "A comparison theorem for interacting particle systems and longterm-coexistence of a spatial population model with competing species'' (2008)
  • Denise Kuehnert: "Properties of diffusion processes arising from stochastic models in mathematical genetics and population biology'' (2008)
  • Phoebe Schmalz: "Ein Vergleich von stochastischen und deterministischen Methoden zur Approximation von Ruinwahrscheinlichkeiten'' (2008)
  • Ronny Guenther: "Ruin theory in the Cramer-Lundberg model: When and how ruin occurs'' (2008)
  • Thomas Glischke: "Rating methods in automobile insurance: Theory and applications'' (2008)
  • Tomasz Nowak: "Ein Vergleich von stochastischen und deterministischen Methoden zur Approximation von Ruinwahrscheinlichkeiten'' (2008)
  • Neven Rebic: "Verallgemeinerte lineare Modelle in der Versicherungsmathematik: Theorie und Praxis'' (2008)
  • Nora Schweppe: "Approximation of Measure Valued Stochastic Processes" (2009)
  • Julia Ruscher: "Properties of Superprocesses and Interacting Particle Systems" (2009)
  • Mara Walgenbach: "Stochastische Modellierung Chemischer Reaktionsnetzwerke" (2009)
  • Benedikt Jahnel: "The Central Limit Theorem For Random Walks in Markovian Environments" (2010)
  • Chao Wang (running)
  • Andre Sivapragasam (running)


Last modified: March 21, 2012.