April 13: Toufic Suidan (UC Santa Cruz)
Title: Random matrix Central Limit Theorems for non-intersecting random walks.
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April 20: Jean-François Delmas (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, visiting UCSD)
Title: Fragmentation of the continuous random tree.
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April 27: Pat Fitzsimmons (UCSD)
Title: Recurrent Extensions of Self-similar Markov Processes.
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May 4: Elizabeth Meckes (Stanford University)
Title: Random Matrices and Infinitesimal Rotations.
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May 25: Rami Atar (Technion, Israel, visiting University of Washington), at 11:00 AM in Room 5829.
Title: On the second Neumann eigenvalue.
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June 1: No seminar
June 8: TBA
January 19: Murray Rosenblatt (UCSD)
Title: Spectral estimates and processes with almost periodic covariance function.
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January 26: Yuzuru Inahama (Osaka University, Japan)
Title: Laplace's method for differential equations in the rough path theory.
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February 2: Nevin Kapur (California Institute of Technology)
Title: Additive functionals on multiway search trees.
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February 16: Ken Hochberg (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Title: Hierarchically structured branching-diffusing systems.
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February 23: Ron Getoor (UCSD)
Title: Duality for Markov processes.
March 2: Jason Schweinsberg (UCSD)
Title: The loop-erased random walk and the uniform spanning tree on the four-dimensional discrete torus.
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March 9: Gady Kozma (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Title: The scaling limit of the loop-erased random walk in three dimensions.
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March 16: Gabor Pete (UC Berkeley)
Title: Corner percolation and the square root of 17.
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September 29: Rinaldo Schinazi (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
Title: Mass extinctions: living in a big flock may be bad for you.
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October 13: Davar Khoshnevisan (The University of Utah)
Title: From Additive Lévy Processes to Lévy Processes.
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October 20: Sharad Goel (Stanford University)
Title: Estimating Mixing Times via the Spectral Profile.
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November 10: Jean-Pierre Dion (Université du Québec à Montréal, visiting USC)
Title: The efficiency of polymerase chain reactions measured through age-dependent branching processes.
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November 17: Loic Chaumont (Université Paris VI)
Title: On the genealogy of conditioned Galton-Watson forests.
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December 1: Marek Biskup (UCLA)
Title: Phase coexistence of gradient Gibbs measures.
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