Interdisciplinary Stochastic Processes Colloquium

This colloquium series is intended to showcase talks of interest to more than one departmental group of researchers and graduate students.

In Spring 2008 the Colloquium will again meet in 60 Evans and be held usually on the third Tuesday of each month, 4.10 - 5.00.


We will take the speaker to dinner after the talk (at 6.00 pm). Tell David Aldous if you wish to join us for dinner.


month/day speaker title (click for abstract)
1/22 Yurii Suhov Branching random walks and diffusions on hyperbolic spaces
2/19 Anatoly Vershik The infinite dimensional Lebesgue measure, Levy processes with sigma-finite distribution and Poisson-Dirichlet measures


Anyone with suggestions for speakers, please contact one of us.

David Aldous (Statistics): coordinator

Alistair Sinclair (C.S.)

Venkat Anantharam (E.E.)

Fraydoun Rezakhanlou (Math.)

Previous Talks

2007 speaker title (click for abstract)
11/20 Bruce Driver Integrated Harnack Inequalities and the Cameron -- Martin Theorem
10/16 Richard Kenyon Branched polymers (figure)
9/18 Ashish Goel Towards programmable self-assembly and molecular machines
4/17 Kenneth Lange An Overview of the MM Algorithm [Slides]
2/20 Tom Griffiths Markov chain Monte Carlo with people
2006
11/13 Bernd Sturmfels Semigraphoids, Permutohedra, and Mice
9/5 Elchanan Mossel Noise stable sets in discrete and Gaussian spaces
4/18 Steven Evans Death, aging and other fun stuff: what does contemporary probability have to say about patterns of mortality and senescence
2/21 Martin Wainwright Compressing and binning using sparse random graphs
1/17 Rick Durrett Waiting for ATCAAAG
2005
11/15 Amin Saberi Power-law networks: an algorithmic perspective
9/27 Wendelin Werner Self-avoiding loops
2004
11/16 Scott Sheffield Schramm Loewner evolution and the Gaussian free field: Part I
10/19 Alistair Sinclair Phase Transitions and Mixing Times
9/21 Jim Propp Better than random: Quasirandomness for discrete stochastic systems
4/20 Bas Kleijn Complementarity Theorems for Quantum Measures
2/17 Persi Diaconis The fastest mixing Markov chain on a graph
2/12 Rick Durrett A phase transition in genome rearrangement
1/20 Balaji Prabhakar Connections between information and queueing theory
2003
11/18 Horng-Tzer Yau Random Schrodinger Equations
10/21 Oded Schramm Scaling Limits of Random 2D Processes
8/19 Christian Borgs What makes a finite network high-dimensional? Erdos-Renyi scaling for finite graphs
4/8 Francois Baccelli Stochastic geometry and modeling of wireless networks
3/18 Amir Dembo Fractal geometry of simple random covering: late and favorite points
2/18 George Papanicolaou Mathematical problems in array imaging
1/21 Olle Haggstrom Uniqueness of infinite cluster in percolation models
2002
12/05 Massimo Franceschetti The wandering photon: a probabilistic model of wave propagation
11/21 Jung-Bae Son Spectral gap and logarithmic Sobolev constant for balanced matroids
11/07 David Aldous Mean-field combinatorial optimization, fixed point equations and local weak convergence
10/03 Alberto Grunbaum Nonlinear Network Tomography
9/12 Fabio Martinelli Glauber dynamics for the Ising model