Probability and Mathematical Physics Seminar
This seminar covers a wide range of topics in pure
and applied probability and mathematical physics. The seminar is run by
Chuck
Newman,
S.R.S.
Varadhan, Scott
Sheffield and Julien
Dubédat.
Fall Semester 2005
Friday, September 16
Amir Dembo, Stanford University
“Two results about large random matrices."
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Spring Semester 2005
Friday, May 6
Roman Kotecky, Charles University, Prague and Microsoft Research
“Birth of the equilibrium droplet "
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, April 29
Esteban Tabak, Courant Institute
“Nonlinear energy transfer in a simple stochastic model "
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, April 22
Paul Jung, Cornell
“Perturbations of the Symmetric Exclusion Process "
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, April 8
Tom Spencer, IAS, Princeton
“Random matrices, statistical mechanics, and hyperbolic symmetry
breaking”
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, April 1
Jay Rosen, CUNY
“The most visited sites for symmetric stable processes”
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, March 11
Elena Kosygina, CUNY
“Homogenization of Stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi Equations”
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, March 4
Julien Dubedat, Courant Institute
“Commutation of SLEs”
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, February 25
Jinho Baik, University of Michigan
“Eigenvalues of large sample covariance matrices of spiked
population models”
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, February 18
Toufic Suidan, CIMS
“A GUE central limit theorem and universality of last passage
percolation in thin rectangles”
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, February 11
Sourav Chatterjee, Stanford
“The Generalized Lindeberg Principle”
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, January 28
Jonathan Mattingly, Duke
“New results on the ergodicity of the 2D Navier-Stokes equations
under very degenerate forcing.”
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Fall Semester 2004
Friday, December 10
Irina Nenciu, Caltech
“Matrix models for circular ensembles”
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, December 3
Dmitry Dolgopyat, University of Maryland
“Two particle models of Brownian motion”
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, November 19
Federico Camia, Eurandom
“The Full Scaling Limit of 2d Critical Percolation”
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
“Tridiagonal Random Matrices: A New Perspective on the Old
$\beta$-ensembles
of Random Matrix Theory”
(This talk
will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 11:30 a.m.)
Friday, November 12
Jurgen Gartner, TU Berlin
“On the parabolic Anderson model with moving catalysts”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Antti Kupiainen, Helsinki
“Gaussian closure and Fourier's law”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 11:30 a.m.)
Thursday, November 4th - Friday November 5th : Northeast
Probability Seminar (CUNY Graduate Center)
Speakers:
Peter
Morters, University of Bath
Oded Schramm,
Microsoft Research
Sylvie
Méléard, Université Paris X
Laurent
Saloff-Coste, Cornell University
Friday, October 29
Majid Hosseini, Newplatz
“Ratio and ratio-like inequalities involving functionals of Brownian morion”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Link
to Abstract
Friday, October 22
Scott Sheffield, Berkeley
“Tug of war and the infinity Laplacian”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Link
to Abstract
Friday, October 15
Olivier Daviaud, Stanford
“Extremes of the discrete Gaussian Free Field in 2d”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
David Brydges, UBC
“Finite range decompositions of Gaussian processes”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 11:30 a.m.)
Friday, October 8
Julien Dubédat, Courant
“Excursion decompositions for SLE and Watts' formula”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, October 1
Joseph Conlon, University of Michigan
“Travelling waves for the random KPP Equation”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, September 24
Joel Spencer, Courant
“Counting connected graphs using a biased Brownian Bridge”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Spring Semester 2004
Friday, February 6
Nathaniel Berestycki, Cornell
“A phase transition in the random transposition random walk”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Scott Sheffield, Microsoft
“Flow-line geometries and Gaussian loop
ensembles
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, February 20
Josef Teichman, Vienna
“Random Walks on Carnot groups and canonical approximations of
hypoelliptic diffusions”
Friday, February 27
Wendelin Werner, Orsay
“The Brownian loop-soup and conformal field theory”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, March 5
Josh Cooper, Courant
“Quasirandom Permutations”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, March 12
Raghu Varadhan, Courant
“Homogeneisation of random Hamilton-Jacobi equations”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, March 19
Spring Recess
Wednesday, March 26
Sandrine Peche, Institut Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
“Universality in the bulk and at the edge of the spectrum of large sample covariance matrices”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, April 2
Herbert Spohn, TU Muenchen
“The phonon Boltzmann equation for weakly anharmonic and weakly disordered wave equations”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, April 9
Ilya Goldsheid, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
“Towards a constructive approach to Lyapunov exponents”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, April 16
Irene Hueter, CUNY
“Longest paths of the minimal spanning tree”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Dimitri Gioev, University of Pennsylvania and Courant
“Universality in Random Matrix Theory for Orthogonal and Symplectic Ensembles (joint with P. Deift)”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, April 30
Takashi Kumagai, RIMS, Kyoto
“Stability of sub-Gaussian heat kernel estimates and an application to stochastic models”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Talks from Fall Semester 2003
Friday, September 12, 2003
Ellen SAADA, CNRS-Rouen
“Attractivity for conservative one-dimensional particle
systems
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
Exceptional Joint Seminar with the
Dynamical Systems Seminar Yuri Kifer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
“Some recent advances in averaging”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 4:00 p.m.)
Friday, September 26, 2003
Jean-Dominique Deuschel, TU-Berlin
“Aging and the fluctuation dissipation theorem for gradient
interface models ”
Friday, October 3, 2003
Thierry Bodineau, Paris7
“Slab Percolation for the Ising model
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Chales Newman, CIMS
Informal talk on "2D scaling limits in percolation"
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013
beginning at 11:45 a.m.)
Friday, October 10, 2003
Shmuel Kaniel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
“On the Equilibrium Problem in Economics and Finance”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, November 7, 2003
Two talks on Spin Glasses
Pierluigi Contucci, University of Bologna
“Interpolation in Short-Range Spin Glasses”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Daniel Stein, University of Arizona
“The Strange Case of the Mean-Field Spin Glass”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 11:45 a.m.)
Friday, November 14, 2003
Anastasia Ruzmiakina, Purdue
“Characterization of invariant measures at the leading edge for competing particle systems”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Special Joint Dynamical Systems and probability Seminar
Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Geneva
“Decay of Correlation Functions in Hyperbolic Systems”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 4:00 p.m.)
Thursday and Friday, November 20-21, 2003
First Northeast Probability Seminar
“N. Eisenbaum, J. Fill, O. Zeitouni, Y. Xiao”
(This talk will be held at CUNY Graduate Center, NY, NY)
Friday, November 28, 2003
Thanksgiving - no seminar
Friday, December 5, 2003
Jinho Baik, University of Michigan
“Largest eigenvalue of sample covariance matrix”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, December 12, 2003
Alexander Soshnikov, UC Davis
“Janossy densities in determinantal and pfaffian ensembles of random matrices”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, December 19, 2003
Yuval Peres, UC Berkeley (currently visiting Microsoft Research)
“Zeros of the I.I.D. Gaussian Power Series: A Conformally Invariant Determinantal Process”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Talks from Spring Semester 2003
Friday, February 14, 2003
Eugene Strahov, Brunel University
“Random
Characteristic Polynomials: Riemann-Hilbert Approach”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
Leo van Hemmen, Physics Department, TU Munich
“An
Exactly Soluble Spin-Glass Model: How Large Deviations are Easy and
Efficient
to Describe Physics.”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 613 beginning at 4:30 p.m.)
Friday, March 14, 2003
Herbert
Spohn, Zentrum Mathematik, TU Munchen
“Shape
Fluctuations for Faceted Crystals”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, April 4, 2003
Francesco Russo, Université Paris 13, Institut Galilée
"ITO Formula and Fractional Brownian
Motion for Every Hurst Index"
(This
talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30
a.m.)
Friday, April 11, 2003
Ashwin Nayak, University of Waterloo
“Quantum Markov Processes”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, April 18, 2003
Houman Owhadi, CNRS, Marseille
“Averaging versus Chaos in Turbulence?”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, April 25, 2003
Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minneapolis
“Some Generalized Regeneration Structures for Random Walk in Random Environments”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Talks from Fall Semester 2002
Friday, September 27, 2002
S.R.S. Varadhan,
Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences
"Large Deviations for Random Walks in Random Environments"
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at
10:30
a.m.)
Friday, October 4, 2002
Leonid Koralov,
Princeton University
"Transport by Random Flows"
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at
10:30
a.m.)
Friday, October 11, 2002
Michael Goldstein,
University of
Toronto
"Anderson Localization for Schrödinger Operators on Z2
with Quasi-periodic
Potential" (joint work with J. Bourgain and W. Schlag)
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at
10:30
a.m.)
Friday, October 18, 2002
Lenya
Ryzhik, University of Chicago
“Time Reversal of Waves in Random Media”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, November 1, 2002
Yaoyun Shi, University of Michigan
“Quantum
Computing: A 90-minute Tutorial”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m. and ending at 12:00 p.m.)
Tuesday, November 5, 2002
Jinho
Baik, Princeton University and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Limiting
Distributions for Last Passage Percolation Models I: Introduction,
Application
and Random Matrices”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 12:00 p.m.)
Friday, November 8, 2002
Gerard
Ben Arous, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
“Aging for the Bouchaud Trap Model”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, November 8, 2002 – Probability Brown
Bag Seminar
Filippo Cesi, Universita' di Roma "La
Sapienza"
"Spectral
gap estimates for Gibbsian point processes"
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 613 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.)
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Jinho
Baik, Princeton University and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Limiting
Distributions for Last Passage Percolation Models II: Integrable
Methods and
Asymptotics”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1314 beginning at 4:30 p.m.)
Friday, November 15, 2002
Jinho
Baik, Princeton University and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Limiting
Distributions for Last Passage Percolation Models III: Universality for
Discrete Orthogonal Polynomial Ensembles”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, November 22, 2002
Christian Borgs, Microsoft Research
“Erdos-Renyi
Scaling for the N-Cube and Beyond”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 3:15 p.m.)
Friday, November 22, 2002
Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research
“The Phase Transition in the Biased
Integer
Partitioning Problem”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 4:30 p.m.)
Friday, December 6, 2002
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
“Dimers
and Amoebas I”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
Friday, December 6, 2002
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
“Dimers
and Amoebas II”
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 813 beginning at 12:30 p.m.)
Friday, December 13, 2002
Alejandro Ramirez, École
Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne
"Asymptotic
Shape Theorem for Boundary Branching Random Walks"
(This talk will be held in Warren Weaver Hall, Room 1013 beginning at 10:30 a.m.)
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