Gelon's Wife and the Carthaginian Ambassadors

Carthaginian Enlargement of Filtrations ∗ . †

In this work, we revisit some well-known results in the theory of initial and progressive enlargement of a reference filtration F with a random time τ , providing, under an equivalence assumption slightly stronger than the absolute continuity assumption of Jacod, alternative proofs to the already existing ones. We also characterize martingales in the enlarged filtrations in terms of martingales...

Control Ambassadors

I t is not often that the future of control is discussed in the mainstream media, but it occurred in a column in the March 17, 2014 issue of Barron’s Technology Week [1]. The author, impressed with the advances in sensor technology displayed at the 2014 South by Southwest show in Austin, Texas, concludes the article with conjectures about future smart control devices that new sensors will enabl...

Student Ambassadors and STEM Outreach

The cancer patient’s wife

Mrs. Lee, it's your husband's nurse calling from the hospital. We need to know now whether you'll want us to resuscitate Mr. Lee, just in case. A friend of mine, Mary, received this call yesterday. Her husband Tom had been hospitalized a week earlier , after his platelet count dropped so low that daily outpatient blood transfusions became inadequate and other symptoms of his terminal cancer mad...

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