Probability Seminar
List of Talks given in 2010-11
| Monday, August 30 | Jonathon Peterson, Cornell University Weak quenched limiting distributions of a one-dimensional random walk in a random environment |
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| Monday, September 13 | Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University Large deviations for point processes based on stationary sequences with heavy tails |
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| Monday, September 20 | Lionel Levine, MIT Discrete Laplacian growth: new challenges from integrality |
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| Monday, September 27 | Dawn Woodard, Cornell University Convergence rate of Markov chain methods for genomic motif discovery |
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| Monday, October 4 | Martin Larsson, Cornell University A definition of market efficiency |
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| Monday, October 18 | Nathaniel Eldredge, Cornell University Hypoelliptic heat kernels and Lie groups |
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| Monday, October 25 | Louis-Pierre Arguin, New York University Statistics of branching Brownian motion at the edge |
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| Monday, November 1 | Xiaofei Liu, Cornell University The contribution of trader interaction to market noise |
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| Monday, November 8 | Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah Almost sure invariance principles for random walk in mixing random environment |
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| Friday, November 12 | Philip Matchett Wood, Stanford University Singularity of discrete random matrices |
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| Monday, November 15 | Robert Neel, Lehigh University Minimal surfaces and coupled Brownian motion |
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| Monday, November 22 | Andreas Basse-O’Connor, University of Tennessee The semimartingale property of a class of infinitely divisible processes with stationary increments |
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| Monday, November 29 | Tom Alberts, University of Toronto Intermediate disorder for directed polymers in dimension 1+1, and the continuum random polymer |
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| Monday, December 6 | Asaf Nachmias, MIT Arm exponents in high-dimensional percolation |
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| Friday, January 28 | Anastasia Raymer, University of California at Davis Mixing time of the 15 puzzle |
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| Monday, January 31 | Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes, UCLA Zeros of polynomials arising from Markov chains |
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| Friday, February 4 | Dave Herzog, University of Arizona On the stability of stochastic differential equations |
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| Monday, February 7 | Deniz Karli, University of British Columbia Littlewood-Paley theory and multiplier problem from a probabilistic approach |
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| Monday, February 14 | Russ Thompson, Cornell University The rate of escape of random walks on polycyclic and metabelian groups |
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| Monday, February 21 | Jonathon Peterson, Cornell University The contact process on the complete graph with random, vertex-dependent, infection rates |
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| Monday, February 28 | Alex Bloemendal, University of Toronto Continuum limits of spiked random matrices |
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| Monday, February 28 | Milton Jara, IMPA Scaling limits of trap models |
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| Monday, March 7 | Iddo Ben-Ari, University of Connecticut On two models of biological evolution |
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| Monday, March 14 | Carl Mueller, University of Rochester Recent nonuniqueness for some stochastic PDE |
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| Monday, March 28 | Michael Damron, Princeton University Non-polygonal limit shapes in first-passage percolation and coexistence in growth models |
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| Monday, April 4 | Persi Diaconis, Stanford University Adding numbers, shuffling cards, and an amazing matrix |
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| Monday, April 11 | Benedek Valko, University of Wisconsin Scaling limits of beta ensembles |
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| Monday, April 18 | Christian Gromoll, University of Virginia Least-attained-service and adventures with the M_1 topology |
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| Monday, April 25 | Shirshendu Chatterjee, Duke University Latent voter model on random regular graphs |
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| Monday, May 9 | Vladas Sidoravicius, CWI, Amsterdam and IMPA, Rio de Janeiro Compatability of random and deterministic binary sequences |