Probability seminar series

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

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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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
University of Waterloo

The multispecies totally asymmetric zero range process and Macdonald polynomials

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

November 24, 2021

Start: 12:00 p.m.

Location: Online

Jane Gao
University of Waterloo

The rank of sparse random matrices

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 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

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 

May 5, 2021

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Dan Mikulincer
Weizmann Institute

A central limit theorem for tensor powers

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

April 27, 2021

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Christian Brennecke
Harvard University

On the TAP equations for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model

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

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 10, 2021

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Duncan Dauvergne
Princeton University 

Learning from the directed landscape

March 3, 2021

Start: 9:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Louigi Addario-Berry
McGill University 

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
Purdue University

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
Kings College

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

October 21, 2020

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Cris Moore
Santa Fe Institute

The Planted Matching Problem

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 7, 2020

Start: 11:00 a.m.

Location: Online

Pieter Allaart
University of North Texas

On univoque and strongly univoque sets