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Probability seminars

Our seminars are usually held on Mondays at 1.15pm in room 4W 1.7.

Seminars 2023/24

Please contact Avi Mayorcas, Christoforos Panagiotis or Sarah Penington for more information. Our internal (PIMS) seminars are usually held on the last Monday of each month, and are currently organised by Frankie Higgs and Thomas Hughes.

Semester 2

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
22/01/24	Bas Lodewijks	University of Augsburg	Structural properties of explosive CMJ branching processes
05/02/24	Ed Crane	University of Bristol	Lumpings and Couplings of Markov Chains
12/02/24	Oliver Kelsey Tough	University of Bath (PIMS seminar)	Selection principles for the N-BBM and the Fleming-Viot particle system
19/02/24	Louigi Addario-Berry	McGill University	The top eigenvalue of random trees
26/02/24	Eleanor Archer	Université Paris Nanterre	Scaling limits of random spanning trees
04/03/24	Victor Rivero	CIMAT, Mexico	Recurrent extensions and stochastic differential equations
11/03/24	Maria Deijfen	Stockholm University	Percolation in geometric random intersection graphs
18/03/24	Gerónimo Uribe Bravo	UNAM, Mexico	A limit theorem for local times and an application to branching processes
25/03/24	Christoforos Panagiotis	University of Bath (PIMS seminar)	Quantitative sub-ballisticity of self-avoiding walk on the hexagonal lattice
27/03/24 (Note: Weds in 1W 2.03)	Jason Schweinsberg	University of California San Diego	Asymptotics for the site frequency spectrum associated with the genealogy of a birth and death process
15/04/24	Romain Panis	University of Geneva	An alternative approach for the mean-field behaviour of weakly self-avoiding walks in dimensions d>4
22/04/24	Antal Jarai	University of Bath (PIMS seminar)	Activated random walk on the complete graph
29/04/24 (online)	Laure Marêché	IRMA Strasbourg	The self-repelling random walk with directed edges

Semester 1

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
02/10/23	Carl Dettman	University of Bristol	How far to the nearest facility?
09/10/23	Alice Callegaro	Technical University of Munich	Survival and complete convergence for a branching annihilating random walk
16/10/23	Yizheng Yuan	University of Cambridge	Schramm-Loewner evolution, natural length, and variation
23/10/23	Leandro Chiarini	Durham University	Fermionic Gaussian free field structure in the Abelian sandpile model and uniform spanning tree
30/10/23	Frankie Higgs	University of Bath (PIMS)	Coverage with frayed edges
03/11/23	Thomas Mountford	EPFL	Convergence of self-repelling random walks
06/11/23	James Martin	University of Oxford	The environment seen from a geodesic in last-passage percolation, and the TASEP seen from a second-class particle
13/11/23	Peter Koepernik	University of Oxford	The Brownian spatial coalescent
20/11/23	Catherine Aaron	Université Clermont Auvergne	An overview of set and manifold estimation
27/11/23	Thomas Hughes	University of Bath (PIMS)	Compact support versus instantaneous propagation for spatial branching processes
04/12/23	Laurent Miclo	Toulouse School of Economics	On fraudulent stochastic algorithms
11/12/23	Márton Balázs	University of Bristol	Road layout in the KPZ class

Archive

We keep an archive of speakers and abstracts going back to 2006. Please let Matt Roberts know if you find any errors.

If you wish to find out more about our seminar programme, please contact Daniel Kious or Sarah Penington.

2023/24 international visitors

Dates	Visitor
13/11/24 - 17/11/24	Zsófia Talyigás (Vienna)
27/03/24 - 28/03/24	Jason Schweinsberg (San Diego)
13/05/24 - 15/05/24	Vianney Brouard (ENS Lyon)
24/05/24 - 24/05/24	Dmitrii Krachun (Princeton)
17/06/24 - 18/06/24	Simon Harris (Auckland)
24/06/24 - 28/06/24	Jakob Björnberg (Gothenburg)
24/06/24 - 28/06/24	Apolline Louvet (TU Munich)
08/07/24 - 12/07/24	Alice Callegaro (TU Munich)