UBC Probability seminar, 2014-2015

Location: ESB 2012
Time: Wednesdays, 3–4pm

Past Talks

 May 13 Arjun Krishnan (University of Utah) Fluctuations for polymer models in intermediate disorder March 11 Matthew Junge (University of Washington) The frog model on trees March 4 Qingsan Zhu (University of British Columbia) An upper bound for the probability of visiting a distant point by critical branching random walk in $Z^4$ Feb. 25 Gordon Slade (University of British Columbia) A new proof of the sharpness of the percolation phase transition Jan. 29 Camelia Pop (U. of Pennsylvania) Harnack inequalities for degenerate diffusions Jan. 15 Georg Menz (Stanford University) A two scale proof of the Eyring-Kramers formula Jan. 13 Joe Neeman (UT Austin) Gaussian noise stability Jan. 8 Roland Bauerschmidt (Harvard University) Specific heat of 4D spin models Jan. 6 Elliot Paquette (Weizmann Institute of Science) Stationary random graphs and the hyperbolic Poisson Voronoi tessellation Nov. 26 Stefan Adams (Warwick University) Phase Transitions in Continuum Delaunay Potts Models Nov. 19 Mathav Murugan (Cornell University) Random walks on metric measure spaces Nov. 12 Martin Barlow (UBC) The uniform spanning tree in two dimensions and its scaling limit Nov. 5 Tom Salisbury (York University) Random walk in non-elliptic random environments Oct. 29 Júlia Komjáthy (Eindhoven University of Technology) Degree distribution of shortest path trees and bias in network sampling algorithms Oct. 22 Tom Hutchcroft (UBC) Unimodular hyperbolic triangulations Oct. 15 Paul Tupper (Simon Fraser University) Modelling and simulating systems with state-dependent diffusion Oct. 1 Xinghua Zheng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Solving the high-dimensional Markowitz Optimization Problem: a tale of sparse solutions Sep. 24 Takashi Kumagai (Kyoto University) Quenched Invariance Principle for a class of random conductance models with long-range jumps Sep. 10 Akira Sakai (Hokkaido University) Critical two-point function for the $$\varphi^4$$ model in dimensions $$d>4$$ Sep. 10 Agelos Georgakopoulos (University of Warwick) Group walk random graphs Sep. 3 Codina Cotar (University College London) Gradient Gibbs measures with disorder