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M. J. Beckmann M. N. Gopalan R. Subramanian (Eds.)

Stochastic Processes

and their Applications Proceedings of the Symposium held in honour of Professor S. K. Srinivasan at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, December 27-30, 1990

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH

Editors M. J. Beckmann Brown University Providence, RI 02912, USA and Institut fUr Angewandte Mathematik Technische Universităt MUnchen MUnchen, FRG M. N. Gopalan Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India R. Subramanian Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

This Symposium was sponsored by the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics

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PROFESSOR S. K. SRINIVASAN

CONTENTS Preface

Scientific Publications of Professor S.K.Srinivasan

Books

IX XI XIV XVII

Scientific Publications of Professor S.K.Srinivasan

Research Papers

XVI II

Biographical Sketch of Professor S.K.Srinivasan Scientific Contributions of Professor S.K.Srinivasan

Keynote Address in the Symposium :

S.K.Srinivasan : Fifty Years of Cascade Theory:

XXV II I

Stochastic Methods and Their Ramifications I.Stochastic Theory Marcel F.Neuts: The Square Wave Spectrum of a Markov Renewal Process Ann-Lee Wang. David Vere-Jones and Xiao-gu Zheng:

Simulation

and

Estimation Procedures for Stress Release Models

11

2. Physics J. Bass: Positive Definite Functions in Quantum Mechanics and in 28

Turbulence J.Jeffers

and

T.J.Shepherd:

Population

Monitoring

and

the

Quantum Input-Output Formalism

44

P.M.Mathews : An Application of the Kalman Filter in Geoastronomy

53

K.V.Parthasarathy: Conformal Martingales in Stochastic Mechanics

62

E.C.G.Sudarshan : Probability Distributions Over Noncommuting Variables

69

R.Vasudevan: Stochastic Quantum Mechanics

82

3.Biology George Adomian, Matthew Witten and Gerald E. Adomian:A New Approach to the Solution of Neurological Models: Application to the Hodgkin-Huxley and

the Fi tzhugh-Nagumo Equat ions

99·

A.V.Holden and M.A. Muhamad ; Neuronal Variability; Stochasticityor Chaos?

114

A.Rangan : A Limit Theorem and Asymptotical Statistical Characteristics a Selective Intera.;t;.on Model of a S