Prof. Vu's reading seminar in combinatorics will be meeting on
Thursdays at 1PM in AP&M 6438. The schedule of talks is as
follows:
| Date |
Speaker |
Subject |
Source material |
| 10/07 |
Ross Richardson |
Random Polytopes |
Bárány and Larman, "Convex
bodies, economic cap coverings, random polytopes" |
| 10/14 |
Ross Richardson |
Random Polytopes |
Reitzner, "Random polytopes and the
Efron-Stein Jackknife Inequality" |
| 10/21 |
Kevin Costello |
Random Matrices |
Kleitman, "On a lemma onf
Littlewood and Offord on the distribution of certain sums"
Komlós, "On the determinant of
(0,1) matrices"
Supplementary reading: Komlós, "On the determinant of
random matrices"
Odlyzko, "On Subspaces Spanned by Random
Selections of ±1 Vectors" |
| 10/28 |
Kevin Costello |
Random Matrices |
| 11/04 |
Steve Butler |
Furstenberg's proof of Szemerédi |
Notes on Furstenberg's Proof (Part 1)
Furstenberg, "The Ergodic Theoretical Proof of Szemerédi's Theorem" |
| 11/18 |
Steve Butler |
Furstenberg's proof of Szemerédi |
Notes on Furstenberg's Proof (Part 2) |
| 02/01 |
Ross Richardson |
Polytope CLT |
Reitzner, "Central Limit Theorems for
Random Polytopes" |
| 02/08 |
Lei Wu |
| 02/15 |
Imre Bárány |
Random Polytopes |
|
| 02/22 |
Jake Wildstrom |
Matrix CLT |
Sinai and Soshnikov, "Central
Limit Theorem for Traces of Large Random Symmetric Matrices with
Independent Matrix Elements" |
| 03/01 |
Steve Butler |
Path-enumeration |
Sinai and
Soshnikov, " A Refinement of Wigner's Semicircle Law in a Neighborhood
of the Spectrum Edge for Random Symmetric Matrices" |
| 03/08 |
Kevin Costello |
Littlewood-Offord |
Halász, "Estimates for the
Concentration Function of Combinatorial Number Theory and
Probability" |