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.
Probability Seminar Speaker: Hugo Falconet (Courant Institute, NYU) Title: Liouville quantum gravity from random matrix dynamics Abstract: The Liouville quantum gravity measure is a properly renormalized exponential of the 2d GFF. In this talk, I will explain how it appears as a limit of natural random matrix dynamics: if (U_t) is a Brownian motion on the unitary […]
Probability Seminar Speaker: Ainesh Bakshi (MIT) Title: Outlier-Robust Algorithms for Clustering Non-Spherical Mixtures Abstract: In this talk, we describe the first polynomial time algorithm for robustly clustering a mixture of statistically-separated, high-dimensional Gaussians. Prior to our work this question was open even in the special case of 2 components in the mixture. Our main conceptual contribution […]
Probability Seminar Location: Room 109, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Speaker: Dan Mikulincer (MIT) Title: Lipschitz properties of transport maps under a log-Lipschitz condition Abstract: Consider the problem of realizing a target probability measure as a push forward, by a transport map, of a given source measure. Typically one thinks about […]