Thresholds for edge colorings
Probability Seminar Speaker: Vishesh Jain (University of Illinois Chicago) Title: Thresholds for edge colorings Abstract: We show that if each edge of the complete bipartite graph K_{n,n} is given a […]
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During the Fall semester of the 2023–24 academic year, the CMSA hosted the Probability Seminar organized by Benjamin McKenna, Changji Xu, and Kevin Yang.
This seminar will move to the Harvard Mathematics Department in Spring 2024. The schedule will be updated at www.math.harvard.edu as talks are confirmed.
To join the Probability Seminar Listserv, please visit this LINK.
On the free energy of spin glasses with multiple types
Probability Seminar Speaker: Jean-Christophe Mourrat (ENS Lyon) Title: On the free energy of spin glasses with multiple types Abstract: In the simplest spin-glass model, due to Sherrington and Kirkpatrick, the […]
Some rigorous results on the Lévy spin glass model
Probability Seminar Speaker: Wei-Kuo Chen (Minnesota) Title: Some rigorous results on the Lévy spin glass model Abstract: The Lévy spin glass model, proposed by Cizeau-Bouchaud, is a mean-field model defined on a […]
Sampling from the SK and mixed p-spin measures with stochastic localization
Probability Seminar Speaker: Ahmed El Alaoui (Cornell) Title: Sampling from the SK and mixed p-spin measures with stochastic localization Abstract: I will present an algorithm which efficiently samples from the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick […]
Localization for random band matrices
Probability Seminar *Please note room change: Science Center 232* Speaker: Ron Peled (Tel Aviv University) Title: Localization for random band matrices Abstract: I will explain an approach via "an adaptive Mermin-Wagner style shift" […]
Large deviations of Selberg’s central limit theorem
Probability Seminar Speaker: Emma Bailey (CUNY) Title: Large deviations of Selberg’s central limit theorem Abstract: Selberg’s CLT concerns the typical behaviour of the Riemann zeta function and shows that the […]
Diagonalizing Transition Matrices of Card Shuffles
Probability Seminar Speaker: Evita Nestoridi (Stonybrook) Title: Diagonalizing Transition Matrices of Card Shuffles Abstract: In their seminal work, Diaconis and Shahshahani used representation theory of the symmetric group to diagonalize […]
Boundary current fluctuations for the half space ASEP
Probability Seminar Speaker: Jimmy He (MIT) Title: Boundary current fluctuations for the half space ASEP Abstract: The half space asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP) is an interacting particle system on the half line, […]
Random Neural Networks
Probability Seminar Speaker: Boris Hanin (Princeton) Title: Random Neural Networks Abstract: Fully connected neural networks are described two by structural parameters: a depth L and a width N. In this talk, I […]
How do the eigenvalues of a large non-Hermitian random matrix behave?
Probability Seminar Speaker: Giorgio Cipolloni (Princeton) Title: How do the eigenvalues of a large non-Hermitian random matrix behave? Abstract: We prove that the fluctuations of the eigenvalues converge to the […]
Light cones for open quantum systems
Probability Seminar Speaker: Marius Lemm, University of Tuebingen Title: Light cones for open quantum systems Abstract: We consider non-relativistic Markovian open quantum dynamics in continuous space. We show that, up to […]
Correlation decay for finite lattice gauge theories
Probability Seminar Speaker: Arka Adhikari (Stanford) Title: Correlation decay for finite lattice gauge theories Abstract: In the setting of lattice gauge theories with finite (possibly non-Abelian) gauge groups at weak […]