Probability Seminars 2012-2013

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

May 2013

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 05.27 Memorial Day --- University Holiday --- 05.20 Tianyi Zheng Cornell University Random walks on free solvable groups 05.13 Elchanan Mossel UC Berkeley Sparse block models 05.06 Fraydoun Rezakhanlou UC Berkeley Stochastic Poincaré--Birkhoff Theorem

April 2013

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 04.29 Krzysztof Bogdan Polish Academy of Sciences Parabolic martingales and Fourier multipliers 04.22 Mykhaylo Shkolnikov UC Berkeley Diffusive limits of some random growth models and related particle systems 04.15 Georg Menz Stanford Mathematics A two-scale proof of the Eyring--Kramers formula 04.08 Persi Diaconis Stanford Statistics Random (set) partitions: An expository account 04.01 Nike Sun Stanford Statistics Maximum independent sets in random d-regular graphs

March 2013

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 03.11 Andrea Montanari Stanford Statistics Finding cliques in large random graphs, sparse PCA and iterative thresholding 03.04 Charles Newman Courant Institute Coarsening models

February 2013

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 02.25 Stefano Olla Université Paris-Dauphine Macroscopic fluctuations of energy 02.18 President's Day --- University Holiday --- 02.11 Allan Sly UC Berkeley Lipschitz embeddings of random sequences 02.07 Math Dept Colloquium Ivan Corwin Microsoft Research Integrable particle systems and Macdonald processes 02.04 Lenya Ryzhik Stanford Mathematics Spreading rates for KPP and other Brunet--Derrida systems

January 2013

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 01.28 Sourav Chatterjee NYU The universal relation between scaling exponents in first-passage percolation 01.21 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day --- University Holiday --- 01.14 Marek Biskup UCLA Law of the extremes for the two-dimensional discrete Gaussian Free Field 01.07 --- No Seminar ---

December 2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 12.10 Daniel Kane Stanford Mathematics Diffuse decompositions of polynomials 12.03 Emmanuel Candès Stanford Statistics PhaseLift: Solving quadratic equations by convex programming

November 2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 11.26 Subhro Ghosh UC Berkeley What does a point process outside a domain tell us about what's inside? 11.19 --- No Seminar --- 11.12 Devavrat Shah MIT Queue-size scaling in switched networks 11.05 Alexander Soshnikov UC Davis CLT type results in large random matrices

October 2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 10.29 Eviatar Procaccia The Weizmann Institute of Science Asymptotic behavior of the Cheeger constant of super-critical percolation in the square lattice 10.22 Yashodhan Kanoria Microsoft Research New England The set of solutions of random XORSAT formulae 10.15 Luca Trevisan Stanford Computer Science Evolving sets and graph partitioning 10.08 Persi Diaconis Stanford University Basic arithmetic, probability and additive combinatorics 10.01 James Lee University of Washington Markov type and the multi-scale geometry of metric spaces

September 2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Abstract 09.24 --- No Seminar ---