UCSD MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT: PROBABILITY SEMINAR 2014-2015
The probability seminar meets at 10am on Thursdays in AP&M 6402, unless specifically indicated otherwise. Please send any inquiries to williams at math dot ucsd dot edu

FALL 2014.

  • Thursday, October 23, 2014, 10 a.m.
    Diane Holcomb, University of Arizona.
    Title: Rare events for point process limits of random matrices. For an abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, November 6, 2014, 10 a.m.
    Vilmos Prokaj, visiting UCSB.
    Title: Hiding the constant drift and the perturbed Tanaka equation.
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, December 4, 2014, 10 a.m.
    Patrick Fitzsimmons, UCSD.
    Title: Brownian Motion in Three Dimensions Conditioned to have the Origin as a Recurrent Point.
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, December 11, 2014, 10 a.m.
    Eduard Kromer, UC Berkeley.
    BSDEs, BSVIEs and their connection to dynamic risk measures
    For the abstract, click here.

    WINTER 2015.

  • Thursday, January 8, 2015, 10am. (Probability and Statistics Seminar)
    Mamikon Ginovyan, Boston University.
    Title: Efficient Nonparametric Estimation of Spectral Functionals for Continuous-time Gaussian Stationary Models. For an abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, January 22, 2015, 10am.
    Miklos Racz, UC Berkeley.
    From trees to seeds: on the inference of the seed from large random trees.
    For an abstract, click here.

  • ITA Conference, UCSD, February 1-6, 2015. See the conference webpage.

  • Thursday, February 12, 2015, 10 a.m.
    Takashi Kumagai, Kyoto University.
    Heat kernel estimates and local CLT for random walk among random conductances with a power-law tail near zero.
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, February 19, 2015. No seminar this day.

  • Thursday, February 26, 2015, 10 a.m.
    Yu Gu, Stanford University.
    A two-scale expansion for equations with random coefficients: a probabilistic approach.
    For an abstract, click here.

    SPRING 2015.

  • Thursday, April 2, 2015.
    Matt Junge, PhD Student, University of Washington.
    Splitting hairs (with choice)
    For an abstract, click here.
    Location: AP&M 7421 (NOTE THIS IS A DIFFERENT ROOM FROM USUAL)

  • Thursday, April 9, 2015.
    Jason Schweinsberg, UCSD.
    Rigorous results for a population model with selection.
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, April 16, 2015.
    NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK

  • Thursday, April 23, 2015, 10 a.m.
    CANCELLED Georg Menz, Stanford University.
    A two scale proof of the Eyring-Kramers formula (joint work with Andre Schlichting).
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, April 30, 2015, 10 a.m.
    Tianyi Zheng, Stanford University.
    Random walks and isoperimetric profiles of groups
    For the abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, May 7, 2015, 10 a.m.
    Kavita Ramanan, Brown University.
    Obliquely reflected diffusions in non-smooth domains
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, May 14, 2015, 10 a.m.
    Todd Kemp, UCSD.
    The Hard Edge of Unitary Brownian Motion
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, May 21, 2015, 10 a.m.
    Alan Hammond, UC Berkeley.
    Self-avoiding polygons and walks: counting, joining and closing.
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, May 28, 2015, 10 a.m.
    Lucian Beznea, Bucharest.
    Measure-valued branching processes of Dirichlet and Neumann nonlinear boundary value problems.
    For an abstract, click here.

  • Thursday, June 4, 2015, 10 a.m.
    Piotr Graczyk, LAREMA, Universite d'Angers.
    SDEs for particle systems and applications in harmonic analysis
    For an abstract, click here.