UBC Probability Seminar 2010-2011

The probability seminar is held Wednesdays from 4 to 5 PM in MATH 126 (unless otherwise specified). Seminars by visiting speakers will be followed by dinner at a restaurant, almost surely. Seminars by local speakers will be followed by beer at Koerner's Pub, with positive probability.

Organizer: Ori Gurel-Gurevich.

Upcoming Talks

Past Talks

September 15	Andrea Collevecchio (Ca' Foscari University) A variational formula for the free energy of an interacting many-particle system
September 22	Hyun Jae Yoo (Hankyong National University) Diagonally dominant matrices: their invertibility from probabilistic view point
October 6	Ivan Corwin (Courant) The KPZ universality class and equation
October 13	Russell Lyons (Indiana) Expansion for Group Actions, Independent Sets, and Perfect Matchings
October 20	Marek Biskup (UCLA) Random conductance models with sub-diffusive heat kernel decay
October 27	Sylvain Rubenthaler (PIMS) Propagation of chaos for particle systems: Exploration of the asymptotics and applications
Thursday, November 4 4pm at MATH 126	Greg Lawler (Chicago) Schramm-Loewner Evolution in Multiply Connected Domains
November 10	Deniz Karli (UBC) Probabilistic Littlewood-Paley Theory
Wednesday, November 17 4pm at MATH 126	Tom Meyerovitch (UBC) Ergodicity of Poisson Products
November 24	Michael Kozdron (Regina) The convergence of loop-erased random walk to SLE(2) in the natural parametrization
Wednesday, December 1 3-5pm at MATH 126	Double Feature: Nicolas Curien (ENS) A view from infinity of the uniform infinite planar quadrangulation Ori Gurel-Gurevich (UBC) The Unlikeliness of Being Covered
Tuesday, January 11 3:30pm at MATH 126	Asaf Nachmias (MIT) The phase transition in percolation on the Hamming cube
Wednesday, January 12 3pm at WMAX 110	Colloquium talk by Asaf Nachmias (MIT) Arm exponents in high-dimensional percolation
Thursday, January 13 1pm at WMAX 110	Colloquium talk by Lionel Levine (MIT) Growth rates and explosions in sandpiles
Friday, January 14 4:15pm at MATH126	Lionel Levine (MIT) Logarithmic fluctuations from circularity
Tuesday, January 18 2pm at MATH126	Allan Sly (Microsoft Research) Glauber dynamics for the Ising model on the square lattice
Wednesday, January 19 3pm at WMAX 110	Colloquium talk by Allan Sly (Microsoft Research)
January 26	Siva Athreya (Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre) Brownian Motion on R-trees
February 2	Omer Angel (UBC) Open Problems
February 9	Hyun Jae Yoo (Hankyong National University) Determinantal point processes: Gibbianness and dynamics
February 23	David Brydges (UBC) Branched polymers and Mayer expansions I
March 2	Sebastian Andres (UBC) Invariance Principle for the Random Conductance Model
March 9	David Brydges (UBC) Branched polymers and Mayer expansions II
March 16	Priscilla Greenwood (ASU) Why is the frequency distribution of so much time series data near 1/f?
March 23	Domingos Marchetti Hierarchical models: are they useful?
March 30	David Brydges (UBC) Branched polymers and Mayer expansions III
April 6	Jason Miller (Microsoft Research) Uniformity of the Uncovered Set of Random Walk and Cutoff for Lamplighter Chains
Thursday, April 21 3pm at MATH 126	Mark Holmes (Auckland) A combinatorial result with applications to random walk couplings
Wednesday, April 27 3pm at MATH 126	Ben Morris (Davis) Mixing time of the overlapping cycles shuffle
Friday, May 27 3pm at MATH 126	Ron Peled (Tel Aviv) Proper colorings, Lipschitz functions and cutsets in high dimensions
Monday, June 27 2pm at MATH 126	Adam Timar (Bonn) Allocation rules for the Poisson point process

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