Seminars listed as To Be Announced (TBA) will be updated as their title and abstracts become available.
Spring 2024 Seminars
There are no seminars scheduled for this term.
Past seminars
Date | Speaker | Title |
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November 20, 2023 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Jonathan Husson University of Michigan |
Generalized empirical covariance matrices and large deviations |
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 6, 2023 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Murat Erdogdu University of Toronto |
Hosted at the Machine Learning Theory Day |
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) |
September 25, 2023 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Ahmed El Alaoui Cornell University |
Shattering and chaos in pure spherical spin glasses |
September 18, 2023 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Brice Huang |
Strong Topological Trivialization for Multi-Species Spin Glasses |
April 24, 2023 Start: 4:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Mark Sellke Amazon/Harvard University |
Algorithmic Thresholds for Spherical Spin Glasses |
April 17, 2023 Start: 4:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Alex Wein University of California, Davis |
Is Planted Coloring Easier than Planted Clique? |
March 27, 2023 Start: 4:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Kateryna Tatarko University of Waterloo |
Randomized Petty projection inequality |
March 6, 2023 Start: 4:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Elliot Paquette McGill University |
The homogenization of SGD in high dimensions |
March 6, 2023 Start: 3:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Zhenyuan Zhang Stanford University |
Simultaneous Optimal Transport |
March 2, 2023 Start: 4:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Subhabrata Sen Harvard University |
Mean-field approximations for high-dimensional Bayesian Regression |
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 |
November 17, 2022 Start: 4:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Nike Sun |
On the second Kahn-Kalai conjecture |
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 |
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 |
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 |
March 7, 2022 Start: 4:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Noah Forman McMaster University |
The diffusion analogue to a tree-valued Markov chain |
December 8, 2021 Start: 12:00 p.m. Location: Online |
Olya Mandelshtam |
The multispecies totally asymmetric zero range process and Macdonald polynomials |
December 1, 2021 Start: 12:00 p.m. Location: Online |
Yi Shen |
Excursion sets and critical points of Gaussian random fields over high thresholds |
November 24, 2021 Start: 12:00 p.m. Location: Online |
Jane Gao |
The rank of sparse random matrices |
November 17, 2021 Start: 12:00 p.m. Location: Online |
Dan Cheng |
Peak height distributions of Gaussian random fields and their applications in statistics |
November 10, 2021 Start: 12:00 p.m. Location: Online |
Pragya Sur |
Precise high-dimensional asymptotics for AdaBoost via max-margins & min-norm interpolants |
October 20, 2021 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Pascal Maillard |
Understanding algorithmic hardness thresholds through branching random walks |
May 5, 2021 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Dan Mikulincer |
A central limit theorem for tensor powers |
April 28, 2021 Start: 9:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Will Perkins |
Frozen 1-RSB structure of the symmetric Ising perceptron |
April 27, 2021 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Christian Brennecke |
On the TAP equations for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model |
March 31, 2021 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Mihai Nica |
Log-normal Behavior in Deep Neural Nets and Products of Random Matrices |
March 24, 2021 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Justin Ko |
Constrained Low Rank Matrix Estimation and Vector Spin Glasses |
March 10, 2021 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Duncan Dauvergne |
Learning from the directed landscape |
March 3, 2021 Start: 9:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Louigi Addario-Berry |
The height of Mallows trees |
November 25, 2020 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Matthew Brennan MIT EECS |
Reducibility and Statistical-Computational Gaps from Secret Leakage. |
November 11, 2020 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Takashi Owada |
Limit theorems for topological invariants of the dynamic multi-parameter simplicial complex |
November 4, 2020 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Clément Hongler École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
Neural Tangent Kernel and Applications |
October 28, 2020 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Yan Fyodorov |
Reconstructing Encrypted Signals: Optimization with input from Spin Glasses and RMT. |
October 21, 2020 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Cris Moore |
The Planted Matching Problem |
October 14, 2020 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Louis-Pierre Arguin |
Large Values of the Riemann Zeta Function in Short Intervals |
October 7, 2020 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Pieter Allaart |
On univoque and strongly univoque sets |