Probability Seminar
The Probability Seminars are held in Room 200 of Sequoia Hall at 4pm on Mondays. Refreshments are served at 3:30pm in the Lounge on the first floor.
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We provide a LaTeX template for speakers to use when submitting the abstract for a seminar (sample PDF output). Using this template makes it possible to post the abstract promptly and without unintended errors that might creep in if your text has to be migrated from another source.
Questions about Seminars may be sent to seminars@stat.stanford.edu.
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Mon 03 Jun
04:00PM |
Darrell Duffie | Stanford GSB | Continuous-time random matching |
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Mon 27 May
04:00PM |
University Holiday | Memorial Day | --- No Seminar --- |
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Mon 20 May
04:00PM |
Amber Puha | CSU San Marcos | Asymptotic behavior of a critical fluid model for a multiclass processor sharing queue via relative entropy |
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Mon 13 May
04:00PM |
Sourav Chatterjee | Stanford Math and Statistics | Wilson loops in Ising lattice gauge theory |
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Mon 06 May
04:00PM |
Steve Evans | UC Berkeley | Lipschitz minorants of Lévy processes |
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Mon 29 Apr
04:00PM |
Jim Pitman | UC Berkeley | Probability laws with a power biased inverse: Functional and distributional equations related to self-reciprocal Fourier transforms and the Riemann zeta function |
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Mon 22 Apr
04:00PM |
Xin Sun | Columbia University | Dynamical percolation on random triangular lattices |
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Mon 15 Apr
04:00PM |
Jan Vondrak | Stanford Math | A concentration inequality for generalization error of uniformly stable algorithms |
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Mon 08 Apr
04:00PM |
Nicholas Cook | Stanford Math | Maximum of the characteristic polynomial for a random permutation matrix |
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Mon 01 Apr
04:00PM |
Andrea Montanari | Stanford EE and Statistics | Optimization of the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick Hamiltonian |
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Wed 13 Mar
04:30PM Extra Seminar
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Takashi Kumagai | Kyoto University | Quenched and averaged tails of the heat kernel of the two-dimensional uniform spanning tree |
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Mon 11 Mar
04:00PM |
Oren Louidor | Technion, Israel | A scaling limit for the cover time of the binary tree |
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Mon 04 Mar
04:00PM |
Peter Glynn | Stanford MS&E | Non-stationary Markov processes: Approximations and numerical methods |
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Mon 25 Feb
04:00PM |
Allan Sly | Princeton University | The slow bond model with small perturbations |
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Mon 18 Feb
04:00PM |
University Holiday | Presidents Day | --- No Seminar --- |
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Mon 11 Feb
04:00PM |
Kavita Ramanan | Brown University | Local dynamics of interacting stochastic processes on sparse graphs |
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Mon 04 Feb
04:00PM |
Lexing Ying | Stanford Mathematics | Convex relaxation approaches for strictly correlated density functional theory |
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Mon 28 Jan
04:00PM |
Ahmed El Alaoui | Stanford EE | On the non-existence of the hard phase on amenable graphs |
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Mon 21 Jan
04:00PM |
University Holiday | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | --- No Seminar --- |
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Fri 18 Jan
02:00PM Special Event
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Hugo Duminil-Copin | IHES, France | Emergent planarity in two-dimensional Ising models with finite-range interactions |
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Mon 14 Jan
04:00PM |
Evita Nestoridi | Princeton University | Mixing time of the upper triangular matrix walk over Z/mZ |
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Mon 07 Jan
04:00PM |
Lenya Ryzhik | Stanford Mathematics | The stochastic heat equation and KPZ in dimensions three and higher |
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Mon 03 Dec
04:00PM |
Persi Diaconis | Stanford Mathematics and Statistics | Some nonstandard central limit theorems with application to importance sampling |
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Mon 26 Nov
04:00PM |
Jacob Fox | Stanford Mathematics | A solution to the Burr–Erdös problems on Ramsey complete sequences |
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Mon 19 Nov
04:00PM |
Thanksgiving Week | --- No Seminar --- | |
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Mon 12 Nov
04:00PM |
Pascal Maillard | Université Paris-Sud | The algorithmic hardness threshold for continuous random energy models |
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Mon 05 Nov
04:00PM |
Nima Anari | Stanford Computer Science | Log-concave polynomials: Counting and sampling matroid bases and beyond |
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Mon 29 Oct
04:00PM |
Yuri Kifer | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Nonconventional random matrix products |
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Mon 22 Oct
04:00PM |
Moses Charikar | Stanford Computer Science | Efficient profile maximum likelihood for universal symmetric property estimation |
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Mon 15 Oct
04:00PM |
Amandine Veber | École Polytechnique, France | The effects of a weak selection pressure in a spatially structured population |
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Mon 08 Oct
04:00PM |
Alex Dunlap | Stanford Mathematics | Constructing (2+1)-dimensional KPZ evolutions |
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Mon 01 Oct
04:00PM |
Jason Fulman | USC | Central limit theorems for character values of symmetric groups |
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Mon 24 Sep
04:00PM |
Freddie Manners | Stanford Mathematics | Oddly specific conjectures for counting latin squares (and other things) |
