Probability seminar series

Seminars listed as To Be Announced (TBA) will be updated as their title and abstracts become available.


Fall 2023 Seminars

Date Speaker Title

September 18, 2023

Start: 11:30 a.m.

Location: M3 3127

Brice Huang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Strong Topological Trivialization for Multi-Species Spin Glasses

September 25, 2023

Start: 11:30 a.m.

Location: M3 3127

Ahmed El Alaoui
Cornell University

Shattering and chaos in pure spherical spin glasses

October 30, 2023

Start: 11:30 a.m.

Location: M3 3127

Elizabeth Collins-Woodfin
McGill University

Bipartite spherical spin glass at critical temperature (with a random matrix detour)

November 6, 2023

Start: 11:30 a.m.

Location: M3 3127

Murat Erdogdu
University of Toronto
Hosted at the Machine Learning Theory Day

November 13, 2023

Start: 11:30 a.m.

Location: M3 3127

Krishna Balasubramanian
University of California, Davis
Gaussian random field approximation for wide neural networks

November 20, 2023

Start: 11:30 a.m.

Location: M3 3127

Jonathan Husson
University of Michigan
Generalized empirical covariance matrices and large deviations

Past seminars

Date Speaker Title

October 7, 2020

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Pieter Allaart
University of North Texas

On univoque and strongly univoque sets

October 14, 2020

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Louis-Pierre Arguin
Baruch College - The City University of New York

Large Values of the Riemann Zeta Function in Short Intervals

October 21, 2020

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Cris Moore
Santa Fe Institute

The Planted Matching Problem

October 28, 2020

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Yan Fyodorov
Kings College

Reconstructing Encrypted Signals: Optimization with input from Spin Glasses and RMT.

November 4, 2020

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Clément Hongler
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Neural Tangent Kernel and Applications

November 11, 2020

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Takashi Owada
Purdue University

Limit theorems for topological invariants of the dynamic multi-parameter simplicial complex

November 25, 2020

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Matthew Brennan
MIT EECS
Reducibility and Statistical-Computational Gaps from Secret Leakage.

March 3, 2021

Start: 9:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Louigi Addario-Berry
McGill University 

The height of Mallows trees

March 10, 2021

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Duncan Dauvergne
Princeton University 

Learning from the directed landscape

March 24, 2021

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Justin Ko
ENS de Lyon

Constrained Low Rank Matrix Estimation and Vector Spin Glasses

March 31, 2021

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Mihai Nica
University of Guelph

Log-normal Behavior in Deep Neural Nets and Products of Random Matrices

April 27, 2021

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Christian Brennecke
Harvard University

On the TAP equations for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model

April 28, 2021

Start: 9:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Will Perkins
University of Illinois at Chicago

Frozen 1-RSB structure of the symmetric Ising perceptron

May 5, 2021

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Dan Mikulincer
Weizmann Institute

A central limit theorem for tensor powers

October 20, 2021

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Pascal Maillard
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier

Understanding algorithmic hardness thresholds through branching random walks 

November 10, 2021

Start: 12:00 p.m.

Location: Online

Pragya Sur
Harvard University

Precise high-dimensional asymptotics for AdaBoost via max-margins & min-norm interpolants

November 17, 2021

Start: 12:00 p.m.

Location: Online

Dan Cheng
Arizona State University

Peak height distributions of Gaussian random fields and their applications in statistics

November 24, 2021

Start: 12:00 p.m.

Location: Online

Jane Gao
University of Waterloo

The rank of sparse random matrices

December 1, 2021

Start: 12:00 p.m.

Location: Online

Yi Shen
University of Waterloo

Excursion sets and critical points of Gaussian random fields over high thresholds

December 8, 2021

Start: 12:00 p.m.

Location: Online

Olya Mandelshtam
University of Waterloo

The multispecies totally asymmetric zero range process and Macdonald polynomials

March 7, 2022

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Noah Forman
McMaster University

The diffusion analogue to a tree-valued Markov chain

March 28, 2022

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Roland Bauerschmidt
University of Cambridge

Log-Sobolev inequality for near critical Ising and continuum

April 11, 2022

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Gautam Kamath
University of Waterloo

Efficient Mean Estimation with Pure Differential Privacy via a Sum-of-Squares Exponential Mechanism

Novemeber 7, 2022

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Alexandru Nica
University of Waterloo

A theorem with CLT flavour, in the framework of the infinite symmetric group

Novemeber 17, 2022

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Nike Sun
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

On the second Kahn-Kalai conjecture

February 27, 2023

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Lap Chi Lau
University of Waterloo

Fastest Mixing Time, Reweighted Eigenvalues, and Cheeger Inequalities

March 2, 2023

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Subhabrata Sen
Harvard University

Mean-field approximations for high-dimensional Bayesian Regression

March 6, 2023

Start: 3:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Zhenyuan Zhang
Stanford University

Simultaneous Optimal Transport

March 6, 2023

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Elliot Paquette
McGill University

The homogenization of SGD in high dimensions

March 27, 2023

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Kateryna Tatarko
University of Waterloo

Randomized Petty projection inequality

April 17, 2023

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Alex Wein
University of California, Davis

Is Planted Coloring Easier than Planted Clique?

April 24, 2023

Start: 4:00 p.m.

Location: M3 3127

Mark Sellke
Amazon/Harvard University

Algorithmic Thresholds for Spherical Spin Glasses