Seminars 2023/24
Please contact Daniel Kious 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 | TBC |
| 02/05/24 | Trishen Gunaratnam | University of Geneva | TBC |
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.
2022/23 international visitors
| Dates | Visitor |
|---|---|
| 21/11/22 - 24/11/22 | Alex Drewitz (Cologne) |
| 24/11/22 - 25/11/22 | Alice Callegaro (Mainz) |
| 04/01/23 - 06/01/23 | Emma Horton (INRIA Bordeaux) |
| 09/01/23 - 10/01/23 | Christoforos Panagiotis (Geneva) |
| 16/01/23 - 19/01/23 | Oliver Kelsey Tough (Neuchâtel) |
| 08/05/23 - 12/05/23 | Emma Horton (Melbourne) |
| 08/05/23 - 12/05/23 | Denis Villemonais (Université de Lorraine) |
| 11/05/23 - 12/05/23 | Leif Döring (Mannheim) |
| 11/05/23 - 12/05/23 | Juan Carlos Pardo Millán (CIMAT) |
| 07/08/23 - 18/08/23 | Natalia Cardona-Tobón (Goettingen) |
| 13/11/23 - 17/11/23 | Zsófia Talyigás (Vienna) |