Archive

Fall 2024:

  • November 17, 2024: Imre Bárány, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary
    Title: “Limit shape of random polygons and lattice polygons: a survey”
    Video.
  • November 17, 2024: Fedor Noskov, HSE University, Russia.
    Title: “Linear dependencies, polynomial factors in the Frankl-Furedi forbidden sunflower problem”
    Video.
  • October 30, 2024: Yu Feng, Tsinghua University, China
    Title: “Logarithmic correlation functions in 2D critical percolation”
    Video.
  • October 9, 2024: Remi Bonnin, Université Aix-Marseille, France
    Title: “Freeness for tensors”
    Video.
  • October 2, 2024:  Paul Skoufranis, York University, Canada
    Title: “Bi-Free Independence and the Asymptotics of Random Quantum Channels”
    Video.
  • September 25, 2024: Jorge Garza Vargas, Caltech, USA
    Title: “A new approach to strong convergence of random matrices”
    Video.

Spring 2024:

  • April 17, 2024: Theo McKenzie, Stanford University, USA
    Title: The spectral edge of constant degree Erdős-Rényi graphs
    Video.
  • April 17, 2024: Gabor Tardos, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary
    Title: Limits of finite trees
    Video.
  • April 3, 2024: Ian Charlesworth, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
    Title: “Permutation matrices, graph independence over the diagonal, and consequences”
    Video.
  • March 6, 2024: Kiran Kumar, IIT Bombay, India
    Title: “Spectrum of Linial-Meshulam complex in thermodynamic regime
    Video.
  • February 28, 2024:  Balint Andras Toth, University of Bristol and Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary
    Title: “(Towards an) Invariance Principle for the Random Lorentz Gas under Weak Coupling Limit Beyond the Kinetic Time Scale”
    Video.
  • February 23, 2024: Vincent Vargas, École normale supérieure, France
    Title: “The probabilistic construction of the two-dimensional sinh model in quantum field theory”
  • February 21, 2024: James Mingo, Queen’s University, Canada
    Title: “Infinitesimal Freeness”
    Video.
  • February 12, 2024: Roberto Fernandez, Utrecht University (Emer.) and NYU Shanghai.
    Title: “High-temperature cluster expansion for quantum spin lattice systems”

Fall 2023:

  • December 13, 2023: Alexandros Eskenazis, Sorbonne University Paris, France.
    Title: “Resilience of cube slicing in Lp”
    Video.
  • November 15, 2023: Hong Quan Tran, Université Paris Dauphine, France.
    Title: “Information percolation and cutoff for the Glauber-Exclusion process”.
    Video.
  • November 8, 2023: Yu Feng, Tsinghua University, China.
    Title: “Multiple Ising interfaces and their relation to Dyson’s circular ensemble”.
    Video.
  • November 1, 2023: Maxime Ingremeau, Université Cote d’Azur, France.
    Title: “Semiclassical evolution of Lagrangian states into random waves”.
    Video.
  • October 11, 2023: Keith Ross, New York University Abu Dhabi.
    Title: “An Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning”.
    Video.
  • October 4, 2023: Laura Shou, University of Minnesota, USA.
    Title: “Eigenstates of quantized baker’s map”.
    Video.
  • September 27, 2023: Hamza Ruzayqat, KAUST, Saudi Arabia.
    Title: “Unbiased Estimation using the Underdamped Langevin Dynamics”.
    Video.
  • September 21, 2023: Gérard Ben Arous, New York University, USA.
    Title: “The topological complexity and free energy of the Elastic Manifold”.
    Video.

Spring 2023:

  • May 17, 2023: Mastane Achab, Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi.
    Title: “Robustness via distributional reinforcement learning”.
    Video.
  • May 3, 2023: Eveliina Peltola, Aalto University (Finland) and University of Bonn (Germany).
    Title: “On crossing probabilities in critical random-cluster models”.
    Video.
  • April 26, 2023: Nathanäel Enriquez, Université Paris Saclay, France.
    Title: “From the minimal spanning tree problem to the Erdős-Rényi graph”.
    Video.
  • April 26, 2023: Felix Parraud, KTH, Sweden.
    Title: “Asymptotic expansions in Random Matrix Theory and application: the case of Haar unitary matrices”.
    Video.
  • April 19, 2023: Sayantan Maitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre, India.
    Title: “Weak uniqueness for the stochastic heat equation”.
    Video.
  • April 12, 2023: Vittoria Silvestri, University of Rome La sapienza, Italy.
    Title: “Planar aggregation with subcritical fluctuations and the Hastings-Levitov models”.
    Video.
  • April 5, 2023: Octavio Arizmendi, Centro de investigaciòn en Mathemáticas, Mexico.
    Title: “bmt-independence: combining notions of independence”.
    Video.
  • March 8, 2023: Wein Qian, City University of Hong Kong.
    Title: “Conformally invariant fields out of Brownian loop soups”.
    Video.
  • March 1, 2023: Pierre Nolin, City University of Hong Kong.
    Title: “Self-organized criticality and avalanches in 2D forest fires”.
    Video.
  • February 22, 2023: Benjamin Dadoun, New York University Abu Dhabi
    Title: “Monotonicity of the logarithmic energy for random matrices”.
  • February 15, 2023: Mohamed Seddik, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE.
    Title: “Deciphering asymmetric spiked tensor models via random matrix theory”.
    Video.
  • February 8, 2023: Anton Nikitenko,Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.
    Title: “Measuring shapes with random Delaunay mosaics”.
    Video.
  • February 1, 2023: Mireille Capitaine, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, France.
    Title: “Strong convergence of tensor products of independent GUE matrices”.
    Video.
  • January 25, 2023: Michael Cranston, University of California Irvine, USA.
    Title: “The Riemann zeta distribution”.
  • January 18, 2023: Mark Rudelson, University of Michigan, USA.
    Title: “Approximately Hadamard matrices and random frames”.
    Video.


Fall 2022:

  • December 7, 2022: Abu Dhabi Stochastics Day, 2022 edition
  • November 16, 2022: Alexander Stauffer, University of Bath, UK.
    Title: “Non-equilibrium multi-scale analysis and coexistence in competing first-passage percolation”.
    Video.
  • November 9, 2022: Mauro Mariani, HSE University, Russia.
    Title: “Metastable regimes of diffusion processes”.
  • November 2, 2022: Simona Diaconu, Stanford University, USA.
    Title: “Method of Moments and Edge Eigenvalues”.
    Video.
  • October 26, 2022: Reda Chhaibi, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France.
    Title: “Free Probability for predicting the performance neural networks”.
    Video.
  • October 12, 2022: Barbara Dembin, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
    Title: “Coalescence of geodesics and the BKS midpoint problem in first-passage percolation”.
    Video.
  • September 28, 2022: Domenico Marinucci, Università di Roma Tor Vergada, Italy. 
    Title: “The Geometry of Time-Dependent Spherical Random Fields”.
    Video.
  • September 21, 2022: Roland Bauerschmidt, University of Cambridge, UK.
    Title: “Log-Sobolev inequality for near-critical Ising models”.
    Video.

Spring 2022:

  • May 11, 2022: Soufiane Hayou, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
    Title: “Some Insights from Neural Networks with Infinite Number of Parameters”. 
    Video.
  • April 27, 2022: Yijun Wan, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France.
    Title: “On the massive loop-erased random walks and massive SLEs”.
    Video.
  • April 20, 2022: Jianping Jiang, Tsinghua University, China.
    Title: “Ising model with various perturbations”.
    Video.
  • April 13, 2022: Marcin Lis, University of Vienna, Austria.
    Title: “An elementary proof of phase transition in the planar XY model”.
    Video.
  • April 6, 2022: Cécilia Lancien, Université Grenoble Alpes, France.
    Title: “Quantum expander graphs”.
    Video.
  • March 30, 2022: Sébastien Gouëzel, Université de Rennes 1, France.
    Title: “Large deviations for random walks without moment conditions on hyperbolic spaces”.
    Video.
  • March 23, 2022: Charles Bordenave, Université Aix-Marseille, France.
    Title: “Existence of absolutely continuous spectrum for random trees”.
    Video.
  • March 9, 2022: Gérard Biau, Sorbonne Université, France.
    Title: “Recurrent Neural Networks and Ordinary Differential Equations”.
    Video.
  • March 2, 2022: Çağrı Sert, University of Zürich, Switzerland.
    Title: “Stationary measures on projective spaces under block-Lyapunov domination”.
    Video.
  • February 23, 2022: Giambattista Giacomin, Université de Paris, France.
    Title: “Products of random transfer matrices and the statistical mechanics of disordered systems”.
    Video.
  • February 16, 2022: Liza Rebrova, Princeton University, USA.
    Title: “Modewise methods for tensor compression and recovery”.
    Video.
  • February 9, 2022: Mehtaab Sawhney, MIT, USA.
    Title: “On the real Davies’ conjecture”.
    Video.
  • February 2, 2022: Nathanael Enriquez, Université Paris Saclay, France.
    Title: “Random menhirs in a Poisson desert”.
    Video.

Fall 2021:

  • December 14, 2021: Alberto Gandolfi, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE.
    Title: “An introduction to elementary Percolation Theory and some related processes”.
    Video.
  • December 7, 2021: Houssam Abdul Rahman, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE.
    Title: “Dynamical entanglement and localization in disordered oscillator systems”.
    Abstract, Video.
  • November 23, 2021: Nathanaël Berestycki, University of Vienna, Austria.
    Title: “The Aldous–Lyons conjecture on recurrent unimodular random graphs”.
    Abstract.
  • November 16, 2021: Richard Aoun, American University of Beirut and NYUAD.
    Title: “Random matrix products: limit theorems and stationary measures”.
    Abstract, Video.
  • November 9, 2021: Ivan Nourdin, University of Luxembourg.
    Title: “The Breuer-Major theorem: old and new”.
    Abstract, Video.
  • November 2, 2021: Miklós Ruszinkó, Rényi Institute of Mathematics and NYUAD.
    Title: “A modified bootstrap percolation on  a random graph coupled with a lattice”.
    Video.
  • October 26, 2021: Claire Boyer, Sorbonne Université, France.
    Title: “Sampling rates for l1-synthesis”.
    Video.
  • October 19, 2021: Yves Le Jan, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE.
    Title: “Biparental genealogy”.
    Abstract, Video.
  • October 12, 2021: Giovanni Peccati, University of Luxembourg.
    Title: “Stopping sets and phase transitions on the Poisson space”.
    Abstract, Video.
  • October 5, 2021: Anna Ben-Hamou, Sorbonne Université, France.
    Title: “Speeding up Markov chains with random permutations”.
    Abstract, Video.
  • September 28, 2021: Laure Dumaz, Université Paris Dauphine, France.
    Title: “Localization of the continuous Anderson hamiltonian in 1-d and its transition towards delocalization”.
    Abstract, Video
  • September 21, 2021: Emilio Porcu, Khalifa University, UAE.
    Title: “Space-Time Statistics on strange spaces: making it difficult to make it easier”.
    Abstract, Video.
  • September 14, 2021: Kavita Ramanan, Brown University, USA.
    Title: “Asymptotics of empirical measures of interacting particle systems on sparse graphs”
    Abstract, Video.