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

New lower bounds for sphere packings and independent sets via randomness

  Monday, March 10, 2025, 4:00pm
  Marcus Michelen, UI Chicago

LDPs for the largest eigenvalue of sub-Gaussian Wigner matrices

  Monday, March 3, 2025, 4:00pm
  Nicholas Cook, Duke University

Generalization and overfitting in two-layer neural networks

  Monday, February 24, 2025, 4:30pm
  Pierfrancesco Urbani, University of Paris Saclay

First-passage percolation on hyperbolic groups: Geodesics, coalescence, and exceptional directions

  Monday, February 24, 2025, 3:15pm
  Riddhipratim Basu, ICTS, India

An H-theorem for a class of conditional McKean-Vlasov processes

  Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 12:00pm
  Kavita Ramanan, Brown University

Wetting phenomena in the (2+1)D solid-on-solid model

  Monday, February 10, 2025, 4:00pm
  Reza Gheissari, Northwestern University

The limiting spectral distribution of iid matrices

  Monday, February 3, 2025, 4:00pm
  Mehtaab Sawhney, Columbia University

Mobility edge for Levy matrices

  Monday, January 27, 2025, 4:00pm
  Amol Aggarwal, Columbia University

A maximum principle for the Coulomb gas

  Monday, January 13, 2025, 4:00pm
  Eric Thoma, Stanford Math

Rotationally invariant first passage percolation: Chaos

  Monday, January 6, 2025, 4:00pm
  Allan Sly, Princeton University