Student Probability Seminar

This semester, Spring 2020, we meet Mondays from 11:45am to 1pm in WWH 1314. All students are welcome. Every week one student chooses and presents a topic at an introductory level. Pizza and drinks are served starting at 11:45am, and the talk starts at noon. Anyone is welcome and encouraged to speak, regardless of their background in probability. If you wish to speak please contact Hong-Bin Chen at hbchen [at] cims, Elias Hess-Childs at elias.hess-childs [at] courant, Tim Kunisky at kunisky [at] cims, or Benjamin McKenna at mckenna [at] cims.

Seminar Organizer(s): Hong-Bin Chen, Elias Hess-Childs, Tim Kunisky, Benjamin McKenna

Past Events

Thursday, December 10, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
Rigorous Derivation of Brownian Motion from Deterministic Hard Spheres
Ryan Denlinger
Thursday, November 12, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
Global Solution for Burgers Equation and Its Connection with Geodesics in First-Passage Percolation
Liying Li
Thursday, October 29, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
Around Ulam's Problem
Guillaume Dubach
Thursday, October 22, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
2D Gibbsian Point Processes: Preservation and Breaking of Symmetries for the Hard Core Potential
Alexisz Gaal
Thursday, October 15, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
The Lovasz Local Lemma and a Couple of Its Magical Applications
Moumanti Podder
Thursday, October 8, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
Optimal Strategy in "Guess Who?": Beyond Binary Search
Mihai Nica
Thursday, October 1, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
The Random Cluster Model and Applications
Reza Gheissari
Thursday, September 24, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
The Parisi Variational Problem: A New Approach
Aukosh Jagannath