# UBC Probability seminar

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

## Past Talks

 Sep. 7 Todd Kemp (UCSD) Bulk Fluctuations and the Hard Edge of Unitary Brownian Motion Sep. 14 Evan Randles (UCLA) Convolution powers of complex-valued functions on $$\mathbb{Z}^d$$ Sep. 21 Ryokichi Tanaka (University of Washington and Tohoku univeristy) Dimension of harmonic measures in hyperbolic spaces Sep. 28 Edward Waymire (Oregon State University) Some probability theory that arises from worrying about Navier-Stokes and other quasilinear equations Oct. 5 Abbas Mehrabian (UBC Computer Science and PIMS) On longest paths and diameter in random Apollonian networks Oct. 12 Omer Angel (UBC Math) Voronoi cells in random graphs Oct. 19 James R Lee (University of Washington) Extremal conformal metrics, spectral geometry, and distributional limits of graphs Oct. 26 Zichun Ye (UBC Math) Models of Gradient Type with Sub-Quadratic Action Nov. 2 Tianyi Zheng (UCSD) Joint behavior of volume growth and entropy of random walks on groups Nov. 9 Antal Járai (University of Bath) Phase transition in a sequential assignment problem on graphs Nov. 16 Xin Sun (MIT) Liouville quantum gravity and peanosphere Nov. 23 Qingsan Zhu (UBC Math) On the critical branching random walk in supercritical and critical dimensions Nov. 30 Tom Hutchcroft (UBC Math) Update Tolerance in Uniform Spanning Forests Jan. 5 Ohad Feldheim (Stanford) Persistence of Gaussian stationary processes Jan. 10 Sanchayan Sen (McGill) Intrinsic geometry of critical discrete structures Jan. 12 Miklos Racz (Microsoft Research) High-dimensional random geometric graphs Jan. 17 Mathav Murugan (UBC and PIMS) Boundary Harnack principle for diffusions Feb. 8 Brett Kolesknik (UBC Math) Thresholds for contagious sets in random graphs Feb. 15 Jun Kigami (Kyoto University) Completely Symmetric Resistance Forms on the Stretched Sierpinski Gasket Feb 22 Midterm Break Mar. 1 Sarah Otto (UBC Zoology) Fixation Probability when Selection Occurs in Both Haploid and Diploid phases Mar. 8 Gerandy Brito (University of Washington) The tree of geodesics can have finitely many ends Mar. 15 Ben Wallace (UBC Math) Finite-order correlation length of the $$|\varphi|^4$$ spin model in four dimensions Mar. 29 Yaniv Plan (UBC Math) A simple tool for bounding the deviation of random matrices on geometric sets Apr. 5 Rodrigo Bañuelos (Purdue University) Littlewood-Paley Estimates for Lévy Processes