UBC Probability seminar

2020–’21

Location: PIMS Lounge

Time: Wednesdays, 15:15–16:05

Upcoming Talks

Past Talks

April 14	Tobias Johnson (CUNY) Continuous phase transitions on Galton-Watson trees
April 7	Gordon Slade (UBC) Convergence of the lace expansion
March 31	Amir Dembo (Stanford) Averaging principle and shape theorem for growth with memory
March 24	Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) A framework for 3D Yang-Mills
March 17	Marcus Michelen (UIC) Roots of random polynomials near the unit circle
March 10	Jan Grebík and Václav Rozhoň Distributed computing and finitary factors of iid labelings
March 3	Sami Davies (Northwestern) A Survey on Trace Reconstruction
Feb. 24	Erik Bates (UW-Madison) Empirical measures, geodesic lengths, and a variational formula in first-passage percolation
Feb. 10	Zongchen Chen (MIT) Optimal Mixing of Glauber Dynamics: Entropy Factorization via High-Dimensional Expansion
Feb. 3	Marek Biskup (UCLA) Exceptional points of random walks in planar domains
Jan. 27	Dong Yao (Jiangsu Normal University) Mean Field Behavior during the Big Bang for Coalescing Random Walk
Jan. 20	Jens Malmquist (UBC) Stability results for symmetric jump processes on metric measure spaces with atoms
Jan. 13	Jimmy He (MIT) Random walks on finite fields with deterministic jumps
Dec. 3	Zoe Huang (Duke) Motion by mean curvature in interacting particle systems
Nov. 25	Nick Cook (Duke) The minimum modulus for random trigonometric polynomials
Nov. 18	Danny Nam (Princeton) The critical 1D multi-particle DLA
Nov. 4	Tom Hutchcroft (Cambridge) Power-law bounds for critical long-range percolation
Oct. 28	Ashwin Sah and Mehtaab Sawhney Singularity of discrete random matrices
Oct. 21	Jan Grebik (Warwick) LDP for graphons
Oct. 14	Matthew Jenssen (Birmingham) Homomorphisms from the torus
Oct. 7	Jacob Richey (UBC) Recent results on the phase transition for activated random walk
Sep. 30	Evita Nestoridi (Princeton) Mixing time of the upper triangular matrix walk over Z/mZ
Sep. 23	Sarai Hernandez-Torres (Technion) Scaling limits of uniform spanning trees in three dimensions
Sept. 16	Persi Diaconis (Stanford) Gamblers ruin with many gamblers
Sept. 9	Martin Barlow (UBC) A branching process with contact tracing

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Organizer: 2020–’21: Jacob Richey

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