Probability Seminar

Seminars from previous years can be found at All Past Events by filtering for the Probability Seminar series. An archive of abstracts from past events is available; these documents extend back to the 2010-2011 academic year.

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Past Events

The branching random walk subject to a hard-wall constraint

  Monday, June 10, 2024, 4:00pm
  Oren Louidor, Technion, Israel

Discrepancy algorithms for the binary perceptron

  Monday, June 3, 2024, 4:00pm
  Tselil Schramm, Stanford Statistics

Confinement of unimodal probability distributions and an FKG-Gaussian correlation inequality

  Monday, May 20, 2024, 4:00pm
  Mark Sellke, Harvard

Rotationally invariant first passage percolation: Concentration and scaling relations

  Monday, May 13, 2024, 4:00pm
  Allan Sly, Princeton University

Locality of the critical point for percolation

  Monday, May 6, 2024, 4:00pm
  Philip Easo, Caltech

Independence in random graph models

  Monday, April 29, 2024, 4:00pm
  Jacob Fox, Stanford Math

Better than square-root cancellation via critical multiplicative chaos and beyond

  Monday, April 22, 2024, 4:00pm
  Max Xu, Stanford Math

Moderate deviations for the capacity of the random walk range in dimension four

  Monday, April 15, 2024, 4:00pm
  Arka Adhikari, Stanford Math

Diffusion of knowledge and the state lottery society

  Monday, April 8, 2024, 4:00pm
  Lenya Ryzhik, Stanford Math

Universality for the global spectrum of random inner-product kernel matrices

  Monday, April 1, 2024, 4:00pm
  Benjamin McKenna, Harvard University