Spring 2011
Mondays in 406 Malott Hall at 4:00 PM, unless otherwise noted.
Organized by
Jon Peterson.
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Probability seminars from previous semesters
Schedule and Abstracts
January 24
No probability seminar
January 28 (Friday - 4:00 pm in Malott 251)
Anastasia Raymer, UC Davis
Mixing time of the 15 puzzle
January 31
Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes, UCLA
Zeros of polynomials arising from Markov chains
February 4 (Friday - 4:00 pm in Malott 251)
Dave Herzog, University of Arizona
On the stability of stochastic differential equations
February 7
Deniz Karli, University of British Columbia
Littlewood-Paley theory and multiplier problem from a probabilistic approach
February 14
Russ Thompson, Cornell University
The rate of escape of random walks on polycyclic and metabelian groups
February 21
Jonathon Peterson, Cornell University
The contact process on the complete graph with random, vertex-dependent, infection rates
February 28 (double seminar: 3:30-4:20 and 4:30-5:20 in Malott 253)
Alex Bloemendal, University of Toronto
Continuum limits of spiked random matrices (3:30 in Malott 253)
Milton Jara, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro
Scaling limits of trap models (4:30 in Malott 253)
March 7
Iddo Ben-Ari, University of Connecticut
On two models of biological evolution
March 14
Carl Mueller, University of Rochester
Recent nonuniqueness for some stochastic PDE
March 21
No Seminar.
Spring Break
March 28
Michael Damron, Princeton
Non-polygonal limit shapes in first-passage percolation and coexistence in growth models
April 4
Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
Adding numbers, shuffling
cards and an amazing matrix
April 11
Benedek Valko, University of Wisconsin
Scaling Limits of Beta Ensembles
April 18
Christian Gromoll, University of Virginia
Least-attained-service and adventures with the $M_1$ topology
April 25
Shirshendu Chatterjee, Duke University
Latent voter model on random regular graphs
May 2
Random Environments Conference
May 9
Vladas Sidoravicius, CWI, Amsterdam and IMPA, Rio de Janeiro
Compatibility of random and deterministic binary sequences
May 23 (1:30 in Malott 406)
Harri Varpanen, Aalto University, Finland
Juggler's exclusion process