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 21 May
04:00PM |
Nike Sun | UC Berkeley | Spectral algorithms for tensor completion |
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Mon 14 May
04:00PM |
Brett Kolesnik | UC Berkeley | Sharp threshold for K_4-percolation |
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Mon 07 May
04:00PM |
Stewart Ethier | University of Utah | A population genetics interpretation of the two-parameter Poisson–Dirichlet distribution |
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Mon 30 Apr
04:00PM |
Jose Blanchet | Stanford MS&E | Distributionally robust optimization via optimal transport and applications |
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Mon 23 Apr
04:00PM |
David Aldous | UC Berkeley | Limits for processes over general networks |
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Mon 16 Apr
04:00PM |
Erwin Bolthausen | University of Zurich | A second moment method for high-temperature mean-field spin glasses |
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Mon 09 Apr
04:00PM |
Andrea Montanari | Stanford Statistics | A mean field view of the landscape of two-layers neural networks |
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Mon 02 Apr
04:00PM |
Tim Austin | UCLA | The weak Pinsker property |
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Mon 12 Mar
04:00PM |
Nikhil Srivastava | UC Berkeley | A matrix expander Chernoff bound |
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Mon 05 Mar
04:00PM |
Ayfer Özgür | Stanford EE | Geometry of information in networks: Communication and estimation |
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Mon 26 Feb
04:00PM |
Wenpin Tang | UCLA | Regenerative permutations: Mallows(q) and Riemann zeta formulas |
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Mon 12 Feb
04:00PM |
Xinyi Li | University of Chicago | Minkowski content for Brownian cut points |
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Mon 05 Feb
04:00PM |
Sourav Sarkar | UC Berkeley | Formation of large-scale random structure by competitive erosion |
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Mon 29 Jan
04:00PM |
Allan Sly | Princeton University | The slow bond problem and coalescing polymers |
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Mon 22 Jan
04:00PM |
David Gamarnik | MIT | Algorithms and algorithmic obstacles in high-dimensional regression |
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Wed 17 Jan
04:30PM Joint with Applied Math
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Li-Cheng Tsai | Columbia University | KPZ equation limit for the six vertex model |
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Mon 08 Jan
04:00PM |
Erik Bates | Stanford Math | An upper bound on the size of avoidance couplings |
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Mon 04 Dec
04:00PM |
Jonathan Hermon | Cambridge University | Cutoff for Ramanujan graphs via degree inflation |
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Mon 27 Nov
04:00PM |
Kannan Soundararajan | Stanford Math | The distribution of the values of the Riemann zeta-function on the critical line |
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Mon 20 Nov
04:00PM |
Thanksgiving Week | --- No Seminar --- | |
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Mon 13 Nov
12:00PM Time & Venue Change
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Jean Dominique Deuschel | Technical University Berlin | Random walks in dynamical balanced environment |
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Mon 06 Nov
04:00PM |
Nina Holden | MIT | Convergence of percolation-decorated triangulations to SLE and LQG |
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Mon 30 Oct
04:00PM |
Persi Diaconis | Stanford Math and Statistics | The mathematics of spatial mixing |
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Mon 23 Oct
04:00PM |
Ronen Eldan | Weizmann Institute of Science | On Gaussian-width gradient complexity and mean-field behavior of interacting particle systems and random graphs |
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Mon 16 Oct
04:00PM |
Yuri Kifer | Hebrew University | Limit theorems for nonconventional arrays |
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Mon 09 Oct
04:00PM |
Chikara Nakamura | Kyoto University | The cutoff phenomenon for lamplighter chains on fractals |
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Mon 02 Oct
04:00PM |
Sourav Chatterjee | Stanford Math and Statistics | Rigidity of the 3D hierarchical Coulomb gas |
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Mon 25 Sep
04:00PM |
Yinon Spinka | Tel-Aviv University | A condition for long-range order in discrete spin systems |
