Past Probability Seminars Spring 2020

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Spring 2015

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

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Thursday, January 15, Miklos Racz, UC-Berkeley Stats

Title: Testing for high-dimensional geometry in random graphs

Abstract: I will talk about a random geometric graph model, where connections between vertices depend on distances between latent d-dimensional labels; we are particularly interested in the high-dimensional case when d is large. Upon observing a graph, we want to tell if it was generated from this geometric model, or from an Erdos-Renyi random graph. We show that there exists a computationally efficient procedure to do this which is almost optimal (in an information-theoretic sense). The key insight is based on a new statistic which we call "signed triangles". To prove optimality we use a bound on the total variation distance between Wishart matrices and the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble. This is joint work with Sebastien Bubeck, Jian Ding, and Ronen Eldan.

Thursday, January 22, No Seminar

Thursday, January 29, Arnab Sen, University of Minnesota

Title: Double Roots of Random Littlewood Polynomials

Abstract: We consider random polynomials whose coefficients are independent and uniform on {-1,1}. We will show that the probability that such a polynomial of degree n has a double root is o(n^{-2}) when n+1 is not divisible by 4 and is of the order n^{-2} otherwise. We will also discuss extensions to random polynomials with more general coefficient distributions.

This is joint work with Ron Peled and Ofer Zeitouni.

Thursday, February 5, TBA

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Thursday, February 12, TBA

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Thursday, February 19, Xiaoqin Guo, Purdue

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Thursday, February 26, Dan Crisan, Imperial College London

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Thursday, March 5, TBA

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Thursday, March 12, TBA

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Thursday, March 19, TBA

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Thursday, March 26, Ji Oon Lee, KAIST

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Thursday, April 2, No Seminar, Spring Break

Thursday, April 9, Elnur Emrah, UW-Madison

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Thursday, April 16, TBA

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Thursday, April 16, TBA

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Thursday, April 23, TBA

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Thursday, April 30, TBA

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Thursday, May 7, TBA

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Past Seminars