Student Probability Seminar

This semester, Spring 2025, the Student Probability Seminar meets on Mondays from 11:00 AM--12:15 PM in WWH 1314.

All students and postdocs are welcome. Each week, someone chooses and presents a topic at an introductory level. Anyone is welcome and encouraged to speak, regardless of their background in probability. If you wish to speak, please contact Douglas Dow at dd3103 [at] nyu.edu, Yujin Kim at yujin.kim [at] courant.nyu.edu, Santi Aranguri at sa7270 [at] nyu.edu, Jacob Shkrob at jas10184 [at] nyu.edu, Zhenfeng Tu at zt2255 [at] nyu.edu, or Edward Zeng at ewz2008 [at] nyu.edu.

Seminar Organizer(s): Douglas Dow, Yujin Kim, Santi Aranguri, Jacob Shkrob, Edward Zeng, Zhenfeng Tu

Past Events

Thursday, December 10, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
Rigorous Derivation of Brownian Motion from Deterministic Hard Spheres
Ryan Denlinger
Thursday, November 12, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
Global Solution for Burgers Equation and Its Connection with Geodesics in First-Passage Percolation
Liying Li
Thursday, October 29, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
Around Ulam's Problem
Guillaume Dubach
Thursday, October 22, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
2D Gibbsian Point Processes: Preservation and Breaking of Symmetries for the Hard Core Potential
Alexisz Gaal
Thursday, October 15, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
The Lovasz Local Lemma and a Couple of Its Magical Applications
Moumanti Podder
Thursday, October 8, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
Optimal Strategy in "Guess Who?": Beyond Binary Search
Mihai Nica
Thursday, October 1, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
The Random Cluster Model and Applications
Reza Gheissari
Thursday, September 24, 2015
2PM, Warren Weaver Hall 1314
The Parisi Variational Problem: A New Approach
Aukosh Jagannath