Probability Seminars 2011-2012

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September	October	November	December	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August

June 2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 06.11 --- No Seminar --- 06.04 Anirban Basak Stanford Statistics

May 2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 05.28 Memorial Day --- University Holiday --- 05.24 Math Dept Colloquium Eyal Lubetzky Miscrosoft Research The static and stochastic Ising models 380-380W 05.21 Shannon Starr University of Rochester The Mallows model in a weakly asymmetric limit 05.14 Dana Randall Georgia Tech Colloids, lattice gasses, and other models with hard constraints 05.07 Benjamin Young MSRI Experimental matrix inversion and lattice path ensembles

April 2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 04.30 --- No Seminar --- 04.23 Tonci Antunovic UC Berkeley Tug-of-War and the Infinity Laplace equation with Neumann boundary conditions 04.16 Vladas Sidoravicius IMPA, Brazil On some self-repelling motions on R^2 and the proof of the Coffman--Gilbert conjecture 04.09 4:45pm Gregory Lawler University of Chicago Natural length for the Schramm--Loewner evolution 04.02 Ben Green University of Cambridge Approximate groups and applications

March 2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 03.22 01-380 380W Scott Sheffield MIT Math Department Colloquium: "Imaginary geometry and SLE" (3:45p reception, 2nd floor lounge)

February 2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 02.27 Peter Winkler Dartmouth College New extremes for random walk on a graph 02.20 President's Day --- University Holiday --- 02.13 Horng-Tzer Yau Harvard University Universality of random matrices 02.06 --- No Seminar ---

January 2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 01.30 Persi Diaconis Stanford Statistics Who needs positivity? 01.23 Gregory Miermont Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud) The scaling limit of random plane quadrangulations 01.17 Laurent Saloff-Coste Cornell University Random walks from a geometric perspective 01.16 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day --- University Holiday --- 01.09 --- No Seminar ---

December 2011

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 12.05 Yuval Peres Microsoft Research Mixing times are hitting times of large sets

November 2011

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 11.28 Dan Romik UC Davis Second-class particles in the Plancherel Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process and ``jeu de taquin'' 11.21 No Seminar 11.14 Richard A. Olshen Stanford University Statistics Successive normalization of rectangular sets of data 11.09 Wednesday Joint w/ Appl. Math Lionel Levine Cornell University Logarithmic fluctuations from circularity

October 2011

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 10.31 Aaron Smith Stanford Mathematics Random birth and death chains and the cutoff phenomenon 10.24 Gérard Ben Arous NYU Random walks on random trees and the Einstein relation 10.17 Rafal Latala University of Warsaw Tail estimates for sums of independent log-concave random vectors 10.10 Darrell Duffie Stanford University GSB The percolation of information in large over-the-counter markets 10.03 Amin Saberi Stanford University MSE and iCME A randomized rounding approach for the Traveling Salesman Problem

September 2011

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 09.26 Russell Lyons Indiana University Metric spaces of negative type in statistics