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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Upcoming Events

January
26

Current fluctuations in the Toda lattice

  Sequoia 200
  Matthew Nicoletti, Stanford Math
February
2

Exact exponents for directed distances in planar maps

  Sequoia 200
  Jacopo Borga, MIT
February
9

Title to come

  Sequoia 200
  Brice Huang, Stanford Statistics
February
23

Title to come

  Sequoia 200
  Theo McKenzie, Stanford Math
March
2

Title to come

  Sequoia 200
  Vadim Gorin, UC Berkeley
March
9

Title to come

  Sequoia 200
  Dominik Schmid, University of Augsburg
March
16

Title to come

  Sequoia 200
  Leonid Petrov, University of Virginia

Past Events

Stochastic block model with many communities

  Monday, March 31, 2025, 4:00pm
  Youngtak Sohn, Brown University

Stochastic blocks models: Detection and recovery

  Monday, March 17, 2025, 4:00pm
  Allan Sly, Princeton University

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