Seminars listed as To Be Announced (TBA) will be updated as their title and abstracts become available.
Upcoming Seminars
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TBD |
Past seminars
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March 16, 2026 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Alexander Dunlap Duke University |
Stationary measure for the open KPZ equation: an analytic viewpoint |
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March 2, 2026 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Jaime Garza University of Ottawa |
Random permutation matrices and Chinese restaurant processes |
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January 19, 2026 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Daniel Perales University of Notre Dame |
Finite Free Probability |
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January 12, 2026 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Han Le University of Waterloo |
Free Energy and Overlap Fluctuations in the Bipartite Spherical SK Model |
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November 17, 2025 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Yandi Shen Carnegie Mellon University |
Learning single index model with gradient descent: spectral initialization and precise asymptotics |
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October 27, 2025 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Margalit Glasgow MIT |
Propagation of Chaos in 2-Layer Neural Networks beyond Logarithmic Time |
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October 20, 2025 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Lucas Benigni |
Eigenvalue distribution of the Neural Tangent Kernel in a quadratic scaling |
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April 28, 2025 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Saeed Ghadimi University of Waterloo |
An Adversarially Robust Formulation of Linear Regression with Missing Data |
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April 7, 2025 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Matus Telgarsky |
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March 31, 2025 Start: 2:30 p.m. Hosted by Pure Math |
Mark Rudelson |
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March 10, 2025 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Jeffrey Negrea University of Waterloo |
Quantitative Error Bounds for Scaling Limits of Stochastic Iterative Algorithms |
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January 28, 2025 Start: 10:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Shai Ben-David |
Learning probability distributions; what can, what can't be done. |
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December 2, 2023 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Zhou Fan Yale University |
Kronecker-product random matrices and a matrix least squares problem |
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November 25, 2023 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Curtis Grant Northwestern University |
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November 11, 2023 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Cheng Mao Georgia Tech |
Inference of Planted Subgraphs in Random Graphs |
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October 7, 2023 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Murat Erdogdu University of Toronto |
Feature Learning in Two-layer Neural Networks under Structured Data |
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September 30, 2023 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Alexander Fribergh Université de Montréal |
Biased random walks on supercritical percolation clusters |
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September 23, 2023 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Benjamin Landon University of Toronto |
Maximum of the characteristic polynomial of i.i.d. random matrices |
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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 |
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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 |
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November 6, 2023 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Murat Erdogdu University of Toronto |
Hosted at the Machine Learning Theory Day |
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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) |
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September 25, 2023 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Ahmed El Alaoui Cornell University |
Shattering and chaos in pure spherical spin glasses |
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September 18, 2023 Start: 11:30 a.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Brice Huang |
Strong Topological Trivialization for Multi-Species Spin Glasses |
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April 24, 2023 Start: 4:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Mark Sellke Amazon/Harvard University |
Algorithmic Thresholds for Spherical Spin Glasses |
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April 17, 2023 Start: 4:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Alex Wein University of California, Davis |
Is Planted Coloring Easier than Planted Clique? |
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March 27, 2023 Start: 4:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Kateryna Tatarko University of Waterloo |
Randomized Petty projection inequality |
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March 6, 2023 Start: 4:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Elliot Paquette McGill University |
The homogenization of SGD in high dimensions |
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March 6, 2023 Start: 3:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Zhenyuan Zhang Stanford University |
Simultaneous Optimal Transport |
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March 2, 2023 Start: 4:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Subhabrata Sen Harvard University |
Mean-field approximations for high-dimensional Bayesian Regression |
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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 |
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November 17, 2022 Start: 4:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Nike Sun |
On the second Kahn-Kalai conjecture |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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March 7, 2022 Start: 4:00 p.m. Location: M3 3127 |
Noah Forman McMaster University |
The diffusion analogue to a tree-valued Markov chain |
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December 8, 2021 Start: 12:00 p.m. Location: Online |
Olya Mandelshtam |
The multispecies totally asymmetric zero range process and Macdonald polynomials |
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December 1, 2021 Start: 12:00 p.m. Location: Online |
Yi Shen |
Excursion sets and critical points of Gaussian random fields over high thresholds |
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November 24, 2021 Start: 12:00 p.m. Location: Online |
Jane Gao |
The rank of sparse random matrices |
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November 17, 2021 Start: 12:00 p.m. Location: Online |
Dan Cheng |
Peak height distributions of Gaussian random fields and their applications in statistics |
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November 10, 2021 Start: 12:00 p.m. Location: Online |
Pragya Sur |
Precise high-dimensional asymptotics for AdaBoost via max-margins & min-norm interpolants |
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October 20, 2021 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Pascal Maillard |
Understanding algorithmic hardness thresholds through branching random walks |
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May 5, 2021 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Dan Mikulincer |
A central limit theorem for tensor powers |
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April 28, 2021 Start: 9:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Will Perkins |
Frozen 1-RSB structure of the symmetric Ising perceptron |
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April 27, 2021 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Christian Brennecke |
On the TAP equations for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model |
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March 31, 2021 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Mihai Nica |
Log-normal Behavior in Deep Neural Nets and Products of Random Matrices |
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March 24, 2021 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Justin Ko |
Constrained Low Rank Matrix Estimation and Vector Spin Glasses |
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March 10, 2021 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Duncan Dauvergne |
Learning from the directed landscape |
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March 3, 2021 Start: 9:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Louigi Addario-Berry |
The height of Mallows trees |
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November 25, 2020 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Matthew Brennan MIT EECS |
Reducibility and Statistical-Computational Gaps from Secret Leakage. |
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November 11, 2020 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Takashi Owada |
Limit theorems for topological invariants of the dynamic multi-parameter simplicial complex |
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November 4, 2020 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Clément Hongler École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
Neural Tangent Kernel and Applications |
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October 28, 2020 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Yan Fyodorov |
Reconstructing Encrypted Signals: Optimization with input from Spin Glasses and RMT. |
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October 21, 2020 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Cris Moore |
The Planted Matching Problem |
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October 14, 2020 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Louis-Pierre Arguin |
Large Values of the Riemann Zeta Function in Short Intervals |
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October 7, 2020 Start: 11:00 a.m. Location: Online |
Pieter Allaart |
On univoque and strongly univoque sets |