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The Probability Seminars for Summer Quarter will be held online via Zoom at 4pm on Mondays. Please note that these events will be locked by the Host after ten minutes, so latecomers will not be able to join the Meeting. Subscribe to our distribution list to receive Meeting IDs and passwords via email.

During this period of restrictions on social gatherings within our community, the Statistics and Mathematics Departments remain committed to providing a forum for sharing our research and that of our colleagues as regularly as possible. We hope to see everyone together in a live presentation very soon!

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Zoom sessions are open to registered participants through our email distribution. Questions about this series may be sent to seminars@stat.stanford.edu.

July 2020
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Mon 27 Jul
04:00PM
 Jiaoyang Huang IAS, Princeton Extreme eigenvalues of adjacency matrices of random $d$-regular graphs
Mon 20 Jul
04:00PM
 Jess Banks UC Berkeley ---
Mon 13 Jul
04:00PM
 Jimmy He Stanford Math Limit theorems for descents of Mallows permutations
Mon 06 Jul
10:00AM
Time Change
 Fanny Augeri Weizmann Institute A transportation approach to the mean-field approximation
June 2020
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Mon 29 Jun
04:00PM
 Alex Dunlap Stanford Math Stationary and shock solutions for the stochastic Burgers equation
Wed 24 Jun
12:00PM
Special Event
 Wei-Kuo Chen University of Minnesota Universality of approximate message passing algorithms
Mon 22 Jun
04:00PM
 Sky Cao Stanford Statistics Wilson loop expectations for finite gauge groups
Mon 15 Jun
04:00PM
 Julia Palacios Stanford Statistics Shuffling ancestries
Mon 08 Jun
04:00PM
 Yuriy Nemish UC San Diego Rational functions of Wigner matrices and scattering in quantum dots
Mon 01 Jun
04:00PM
 Lucas Benigni University of Chicago Optimal delocalization for generalized Wigner matrices
May 2020
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Mon 25 May
04:00PM
 University Holiday Memorial Day --- No Seminar ---
Mon 18 May
04:00PM
 Asaf Ferber UC Irvine Induced subgraphs with prescribed degrees mod q
Mon 11 May
04:00PM
 Jonathan Hermon University of British Columbia Random Cayley graphs
Mon 04 May
04:00PM
 Erik Bates UC Berkeley Empirical distributions, geodesic lengths, and a variational formula in first-passage percolation
April 2020
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Mon 27 Apr
04:00PM
 Persi Diaconis Stanford Mathematics and Statistics Speeding up Markov chains with deterministic jumps
Mon 20 Apr
04:00PM
 Gene B. Kim Stanford Mathematics Distribution of descents (and other permutation statistics) in conjugacy classes of S_n
March 2020
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Mon 09 Mar
04:00PM
Rescheduled
 Gene B. Kim Stanford Mathematics --- No Seminar ---
Mon 02 Mar
04:00PM
 Shirshendu Ganguly UC Berkeley Fractal geometry in models of random growth
February 2020
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Mon 24 Feb
04:00PM
 Lisa Sauermann Stanford Mathematics On the edge-statistics conjecture
Mon 17 Feb
04:00PM
 University Holiday Presidents' Day --- No Seminar ---
Mon 10 Feb
04:30PM
Time Change
 Alexander Volberg Michigan State University Improving constant in L1 Poincaré inequality on Hamming cube and related subjects
Mon 10 Feb
03:15PM
Extra Seminar
 Omer Bobrowski Technion, Israel Topological phase transitions in random geometric complexes
Mon 03 Feb
04:00PM
 Sumit Mukherjee Columbia University Fluctuations in mean field Ising models
January 2020
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Mon 27 Jan
04:00PM
 Laurent Miclo University of Toulouse, France Spectral characterization of the metastability phenomenon
Mon 20 Jan
04:00PM
 University Holiday Martin Luther King, Jr. Day --- No Seminar ---
Mon 13 Jan
04:00PM
 Amol Aggarwal Harvard University Universality for lozenge tiling local statistics
December 2019
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Fri 06 Dec
04:00PM
Extra Seminar
 Assaf Naor Princeton University Quantitative vector-valued laws of large numbers for Markov chains
Mon 02 Dec
04:00PM
 Nicholas Cook Stanford Statistics The pseudospectrum of polynomials in random matrices
November 2019
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Mon 18 Nov
04:00PM
 Philip Wood UC Berkeley Outliers in the spectrum for products of independent random matrices
Mon 11 Nov
04:30PM
Extra Seminar
 Jason Miller University of Cambridge Existence and uniqueness of the Liouville quantum gravity metric for γ in (0,2)
Mon 11 Nov
03:15PM
Time Change
 Yuri Kifer Hebrew University Geometric law for numbers of returns until a hazard
Mon 04 Nov
04:00PM
 Matthew Kwan Stanford Math Combinatorial anti-concentration inequalities
October 2019
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Mon 28 Oct
04:00PM
 Elizaveta Rebrova UCLA Sketching for iterative linear solvers: Strengths, weaknesses, and tools from random matrix theory
Mon 21 Oct
04:00PM
 Amandine Véber École Polytechnique Resource sharing with logarithmic weights
Mon 14 Oct
04:00PM
 Jun Yan Stanford Statistics Adapting to unknown noise distribution in matrix denoising
Mon 07 Oct
04:00PM
 Georg Menz UCLA Ergodicity of the infinite swapping algorithm at low temperature
September 2019
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Mon 30 Sep
04:00PM
 Reza Gheissari UC Berkeley Maximum height of low-temperature 3D Ising interfaces
Mon 23 Sep
04:00PM
 Robin Pemantle University of Pennsylvania Recovering a message from a deletion/insertion channel