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Probability Seminar

The Probability Seminars for Winter Quarter will be held online via Zoom at 11am 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.

March 2021
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Wed 17 Mar
12:00PM
Joint with Applied Math Seminar
 Sourav Sarkar University of Toronto ---
Mon 15 Mar
11:00AM
 Jean-Francois Le Gall University of Paris-Saclay ---
Mon 08 Mar
11:00AM
 Milind Hegde UC Berkeley ---
Mon 01 Mar
11:00AM
 Laurent Saloff-Coste Cornell University ---
February 2021
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Mon 22 Feb
11:00AM
 Tom Hutchcroft Cambridge University ---
Mon 15 Feb
11:00AM
 University Holiday Presidents Day --- No Seminar ---
Mon 08 Feb
11:00AM
 Theo McKenzie UC Berkeley ---
Mon 01 Feb
11:00AM
 Zongchen Chen Georgia Tech Optimal mixing of Glauber dynamics: Entropy factorization via high-dimensional expansion
January 2021
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Mon 25 Jan
11:00AM
 Jacopo Borga University of Zurich Random permutations: A geometric point of view
Mon 18 Jan
11:00AM
 University Holiday Martin Luther King, Jr. Day --- No Seminar ---
Wed 13 Jan
12:00PM
Joint with Applied Math Seminar
 Jiacheng Zhang Princeton University A sharp interface limit in the Giacomin-Lebowitz model of phase segregation
Mon 11 Jan
11:00AM
New Time
 Dan Mikulincer Weizmann Institute A central limit theorem for tensor powers
November 2020
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Mon 16 Nov
04:00PM
 Kevin Yang Stanford Math Non-stationary fluctuations for some non-integrable models
Mon 09 Nov
04:00PM
 Christopher Shriver UCLA Gibbs measures and Glauber dynamics on trees
Mon 02 Nov
04:00PM
 Allan Sly Princeton University Critical one-dimensional multi-particle DLA
October 2020
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Mon 26 Oct
04:00PM
 Vishesh Jain Simons Institute Fast and memory-optimal dimension reduction using Kac's walk
Mon 19 Oct
04:00PM
 Youngtak Sohn Stanford Statistics Replica symmetry breaking for random regular NAE-SAT
Mon 12 Oct
04:00PM
 Mackenzie Simper Stanford Math Emergence of communication through reinforcement learning with invention
Mon 05 Oct
04:00PM
 Arka Adhikari Harvard University Random matrix statistics though pseudo-randomness
September 2020
Date/Time Speaker Affiliation Title
Wed 30 Sep
12:00PM
Joint with Applied Math Seminar
 Will Feldman University of Utah Shapes of equilibrium capillary drops on a rough surface
Wed 23 Sep
12:00PM
Joint with Applied Math Seminar
 Li-Cheng Tsai Rutgers University Moments of the 2D stochastic heat equation at criticality
Mon 21 Sep
04:00PM
 Jason Schweinsberg UCSD A Gaussian particle distribution for branching Brownian motion with an inhomogeneous branching rate
Mon 14 Sep
04:00PM
 Ramon van Handel Princeton University A linear to nonlinear principle on the discrete cube