Stochastics Seminar, Spring 2016

Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

Fridays, 3-4 PM, LCB 219

Questions or comments? Contact the organizers: Jingyu Huang and Arjun Krishnan
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Thursday January 14. Special Departmental Colloquium. 4-5 pm. LCB 219
Giulio Tiozzo, Yale University
"Random walks in spaces of negative curvature"

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Friday January 15. Special Joint Stochastics, Max-Dehn, Ergodic Theory Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Giulio Tiozzo, Yale University
"The core entropy of quadratic polynomials"

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Thursday January 21. Special Departmental Colloquium. 4-5 pm. LCB 219
Wenjia Jing, University of Chicago
"Stochastic homogenization and random fluctuation theory for partial differential equations"

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Friday January 22. Special Joint Stochastics and Applied Math Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Wenjia Jing, University of Chicago
"Imaging in random media: modeling and sifting noisy signals"

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Tuesday January 26. Special Departmental Colloquium. 4-5 pm. JWB 335
NOTE THE SPECIAL DAY
Giovanni Motta, Columbia University
"High-dimensional dynamic factor models for non-stationary time series"

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Wednesday January 27. Special Joint Stochastics and Applied Math Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
NOTE THE SPECIAL DAY
Giovanni Motta, Columbia University
"Local polynomials estimation of time-varying matrices for multivariate locally stationary processes"

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Tuesday February 2. Special Departmental Colloquium. 4-5 pm. TBA
NOTE THE SPECIAL DAY
Sean Lawley, University of Utah
"The mutually beneficial relationship between mathematics and biology"

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Friday February 5. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Michael Damron, Georgia Tech
"The chemical distance in critical percolation"

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Tuesday February 9. Special Departmental Colloquium. 4-5 pm. JWB 335
NOTE THE SPECIAL DAY
Lizhen Lin, University of Texas-Austin
"Robust and scalable inference for big data"

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Wednesday February 10. Special Joint Stochastics and Applied Math Seminar. 4-5 pm. LCB 219
NOTE THE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME
Lizhen Lin, University of Texas-Austin
"Nonparametric statistical inference of non-Euclidean data"

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Friday February 12. No Seminar.

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Thursday February 18. Special Departmental Colloquium. 4-5 pm. JWB 335
Shuyang Bai, Boston University
"Long memory and non-standard limit theorem"

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Friday February 19. Special Joint Stochastics and Applied Math Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Shuyang Bai, Boston University
"Self-normalized resampling of long-memory time series"

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Monday February 22. Special Joint Stochastics and Applied Math Seminar. 3:55-5 pm. LCB 219
NOTE THE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME
Veniamin Morgenshtern, Stanford University
"Super-Resolution of positive sources"

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Tuesday February 23. Special Departmental Colloquium. 4-5 pm. JWB 335
NOTE THE SPECIAL DAY
Veniamin Morgenshtern, Stanford University
"Solving underdetermined linear systems with highly correlated columns"

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Friday February 26. Joint Stochastics and Applied Math Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Harish Bhat, University of California-Merced
"Density tracking by quadrature for stochastic differential equations"

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Thursday March 3. Departmental Colloquium. 4-5 pm. LCB 219
Vitaly Bergelson, Ohio State University
"Uniform distribution, generalized polynomials and translations on nil-manifolds"

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Friday March 4. No Seminar.

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Friday March 11. No Seminar.

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Friday March 18. No Seminar. Spring Break.

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Friday March 25. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Louis-Pierre Arguin, Baruch College, CUNY
"The maximum of the characteristic polynomial of random unitary matrices"

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Friday April 1. No Seminar. (REALLY!!)

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Friday April 8. Stochastics Seminar. 3-4 pm. LCB 219
Konstantin Matveev, Harvard University
"Random polymers and q-deformed RSK algorithms"

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Saturday April 9 and Sunday April 10. AMS Spring Sectional Meeting All Day. LCB 225
Special Session on Topics in Probability

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Saturday April 9 and Sunday April 10. AMS Spring Sectional Meeting All Day. LCB 219
Special Session on Topics in Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

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Friday April 22. No Seminar.

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Friday April 29. No Seminar. Classes Ended.

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