Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar

Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Workshops/Conferences
Year 2016

Saturday, February 6, 2016

Midwest Topology Seminar

3:00 pm Inna Zakharevich, University of Chicago
Title: A topological proof of a theorem of Larsen and Lunts
Abstract and details available
4:30 pm Kirsten Wickelgren, Georgia Tech
Title: \(A^1\)-Milnor number: counting zeros arithmetically
Abstract and details available
10:00 am Soren Galatius, Stanford
Title: Some applications of cellular \(E_2\)-algebras
Abstract and details available
11:30 am Craig Westerland, University of Minnesota
Title: Iterated algebraic K-theory and T-duality for sphere bundles
Abstract and details available

Sunday, February 7, 2016

10:00 am Carolyn Yarnall, University of Kentucky
Abstract and details available
11:30 am Eric Peterson, Harvard
Title: Cocycle schemes and \(MU[2k,\infty)\)-orientations
Abstract and details available

Saturday, April 2, 2016

Special Day on Nodal Sets of Random Functions

10:00am Alon Nishry, Univ. of Michigan
Title: Large fluctuations in the number of zeros for Gaussian Taylor series
Abstract and details available
11:30am Erik Lundberg, Florida Atlantic University
Title: On the geometry of random lemniscates
Abstract and details available
2:30pm Yaiza Canzani, Harvard
Title: Structure of the zero set of monochromatic random waves
Abstract and details available
4:00pm Subhro Ghosh, Princeton
Title: Large deviations and random polynomials
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 6, 2016

New Developments in Probability

9:00 Sandra Cerrai, Univ. of Maryland
Title: Large deviations for the two-dimensional stochastic Navier-Stokes equation with vanishing noise correlation
Details of the talk
10:00am Rodrigo Banuelos, Purdue
Title: Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev/Burkholder-Gundy, Doob
Abstract and details available
2:00pm Lea Popovic, Concordia University
Title: Large deviations for two time-scale jump-diffusions and Markov chain models
Abstract and details available
3:00pm Nayantara Bhatnagar, Univ. of Delaware
Title: Decay of Correlations for the Hardcore Model in Random Regular Graphs
Abstract and details available
4:15pm Davar Khoshnevisan, Univ. of Utah
Title: Dissipation and Parabolic SPDEs
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Saturday, May 7, 2016

10:00am Rick Durrett , Duke University
Title: Spatial evolutionary games with small selection coefficients
Abstract and details available
11:15am Gigliola Staffilani, MIT
Title: The Study of Wave and Dispersive Equations: Random Versus Deterministic Approach
Abstract and details available
2:00pm Vadim Gorin, MIT
Title: Lozenge tilings: universal bulk limits, global fluctuations
Details of the talk
3:00pm Elizabeth Werner, Case Western
Title: Best and random approximation of convex bodies by polytopes
Abstract and details available
4:15pm Roger Jones, DePaul University
Title: Almost Everywhere Convergence and the Work of Alexandra Bellow
Abstract and details available
5:10pm Alexandra Bellow , Northwestern University
Title: "Looking back, looking forward" (A few mathematical reminiscences)
Details of the talk

Sunday, May 8, 2016

10:00am Ioana Dumitriu, Univ. of Washington
Title: TBA
Details of the talk
11:15am Arnab Sen, University of Minnesota
Title: Roots of Random Littlewood Polynomials
Abstract and details available

Friday, May 27, 2016

Workshop on percolation, spin glasses and random media

1:00pm Louis Pierre Arguin, CUNY
Title: Maxima of the characteristic polynomial of random unitary matrices
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2:00pm Wei-Kuo Chen, University of Minnesota
Title: A duality principle in mean-field spin glasses
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3:30pm Michael Aizenman, Princeton University
Title: On Pfaffian relations in planar and non-planar two dimensional models
Details of the talk
4:30pm David Gamarnik, MIT
Title: Finding a Large Submatrix of a Random Matrix, and the Overlap Gap Property
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Saturday, May 28, 2016

10:00am Elena Kosygina, CUNY
Title: A zero-one law for recurrence and transience of frog processes.
Details of the talk
11:00 Augusto Texeira, IMPA
Title: Sharpness of the phase transition for continuum percolation on R^
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1:30pm Jon Peterson, Purdue University
Title: Oscillations of quenched slowdown asymptotics for ballistic one-dimensional random walk in a random environment
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2:30pm Vladas Sidoravicius, NYU and NYU-Sh
Title: Multi-particle diffusion limited aggregation
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3:45pm Gerard Ben Arous, NYU
Title: TBA
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4:45pm Jack Hanson, CUNY
Title: Chemical distance in 2d critical percolation
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Sunday, May 29, 2016

9:30am Alan Hammond, Berkeley
Title: Self-avoiding polygons and walks: counting, joining and closing
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10:30am Naoki Kubota, Tokyo
Title: Concentration inequalities for the simple random walk in unbounded nonnegative potentials
Details of the talk
11:30am Chris Hoffman, University of Washington
Title: Geodesics in First Passage Percolation
Details of the talk

Thursday, October 13, 2016

38th Midwest Probability Colloquium

2:45pm Roman Vershynin, University of Michigan
Title: Concentration of Random Matrices and Applications, I
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4:10pm Roman Vershynin, University of Michigan
Title: Concentration of Random Matrices and Applications, II
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Friday, October 14, 2016

38th Midwest Probability Colloquium

03:00pm Scott Sheffield, MIT
Title: Universal Randomness in 2D, I
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04:30pm Andrea Montanari, Stanford University
Title: Phase Transition in Statistical Learning
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Saturday, October 15, 2016

09:00am Scott Sheffield, MIT
Title: Universal Randomness in 2D, II
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10:30am Alan Hammond, UC Berkeley
Title: Brownian Regularity for the Airy Line Ensemble
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01:30pm Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, New York University
Title: Stochastic Processes with Constraints as Models in Material Science
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