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 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) |
