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==Thursday, September 16, Gregorio Moreno Flores, UW - Madison==
==Thursday, September 16, Gregorio Moreno Flores (UW - Madison)==
:Title: '''TBA'''
:Title: '''TBA'''






==Thursday, September 30, Brian Rider, University of Colorado at Boulder==
==Thursday, September 30, Brian Rider (University of Colorado at Boulder)==
:Title: '''TBA'''
:Title: '''TBA'''


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==Thursday, October 21, Michael Cranston, University of California, Irvine==
==Thursday, October 21, Michael Cranston (University of California, Irvine)==
:Title: '''TBA'''
:Title: '''TBA'''






==Thursday, October 28, Tom Alberts, University of Toronto==
==Thursday, October 28, Tom Alberts (University of Toronto)==
:Title: '''TBA'''
:Title: '''TBA'''

Revision as of 19:54, 1 September 2010


Fall 2010

Thursdays in 901 Van Vleck Hall at 2:25 PM, unless otherwise noted.


Past Seminars


Friday, September 3, 4PM B239 Timo Seppäläinen (UW Madison) (Math Colloquium)

Title: Scaling exponents for a 1+1 dimensional directed polymer
Abstract: Directed polymer in a random environment is a model from statistical physics that has been around for 25 years. It is a type of random walk that evolves in a random potential. This means that the walk lives in a random landscape, some parts of which are favorable and other parts unfavorable to the walk. The objective is to understand the behavior of the walk on large space and time scales.
I will begin the talk with simple random walk straight from undergraduate probability and explain what diffusive behavior of random walk means and how Brownian motion figures into the picture. The recent result of the talk concerns a particular 1+1 dimensional polymer model: the order of magnitude of the fluctuations of the polymer path is described by the exponent 2/3, in contrast with the exponent 1/2 of diffusive paths. Finding a rigorous proof of this exponent has been an open problem since the introduction of the model.


Thursday, September 16, Gregorio Moreno Flores (UW - Madison)

Title: TBA


Thursday, September 30, Brian Rider (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Title: TBA


Thursday, October 14, MIDWEST PROBABILITY COLLOQUIUM, (no seminar)

Thursday, October 21, Michael Cranston (University of California, Irvine)

Title: TBA


Thursday, October 28, Tom Alberts (University of Toronto)

Title: TBA