Northwestern University Mathematical Calendar
Probability Seminar
Year 2020-2021


Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Wai-Kit Lam,   University of Minnesota
Title: Tail bounds for the averaged empirical distribution on a geodesic in first-passage percolation
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 9:00am
Pierre Nolin,   City University of Hong Kong
Title: Forest fire processes and near-critical percolation with heavy-tailed impurities
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Erik Bates,   University of Wisconsin
Title: Empirical measures, geodesic lengths, and a variational formula in first-passage percolation
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Souvik Dhara,   MIT
Title: The r-to-p norm of non-negative random matrices
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Sunder Sethuraman,   University of Arizona
Title: On microscopic derivation of a continuum mean-curvature flow
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Marcelo Hilario,   UFMG
Title: Random walks on dynamic random environments with non-uniform mixing.
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Petros Valettas,   University of Missouri
Title: Hypercontractivity, Convexity, and Lower Deviations
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 9:00am
Ron Peled,   Tel Aviv University
Title: Quantitative estimates for the effect of disorder on low-dimensional lattice systems
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 9:00am
Alessandra Cipriani,   TU Delft
Title: Some properties of the discrete membrane model
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Lisa Sauermann,   Stanford University
Title: On the extension complexity of random polytopes
Abstract and details available


Thursday, January 14, 2021

Probability Seminar       , 12:00pm
Tom Hutchcroft,   University of Cambridge
Title: Phase transitions in hyperbolic space
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Arnab Sen,   University of Minnesota
Title: Grothendieck L_p problem for Gaussian matrices
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 9:00am
Rongfeng Sun,   National University of Singapore
Title: The two-dimensional continuum random field Ising model
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Zhongyang Li,   University of Connecticut
Title: Planar percolation and Benjamini-Schramm conjecture
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 9:00am
Louigi Addario-Berry,   McGill University
Title: The height of Mallows trees
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Balint Virag,   University of Toronto
Title: The heat and the landscape
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Patrick Charbonneau,   Duke University
Title: Further Simplifying the Glass Problem
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Christian Brennecke,   Harvard University
Title: On the TAP equations for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 9:00am
David Belius,   University of Basel
Title:
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Benjamin Landon,   MIT
Title: Extremal and critical eigenvalue statistics of random matrices
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 9:00am
Emma Bailey,   University of Bristol
Title: Branching random walks, characteristic polynomials, and zeta: log-correlation, moments, and extrema.
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 9:00am
Yan Fyodorov,   Kings College
Title: Multiple Equilibria and Resilience in Large Complex Systems: beyond May-Wigner model.
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 9:00am
Federico Ricci-Tersenghi,   La Sapienza Roma
Title:
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Elizaveta Rebrova,   Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Title: Modewise tensor dimension reduction and applications
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 9:00am
Christina Goldschmidt,   Oxford University
Title: The scaling limit of a critical random directed graph
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 9:00am
Alexandros Eskenazis,   Cambridge
Title: Metric influence inequalities
Abstract and details available


Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Probability Seminar       https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/907400031, 4:00PM
Peter Morfe,   U. Chicago
Title: Ergodic theory of quasi-periodic diffusions with applications to interface motions
Abstract and details available



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