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Probability seminars

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

Seminars 2022/23

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 Apolline Louvet.

Semester 2

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
06/02/23	Karen Habermann	University of Warwick	A polynomial expansion for Brownian motion and the associated fluctuation process
13/02/23	Félix Foutel-Rodier	University of Oxford	The genealogy of a nearly critical branching process in varying environment
16/02/23	Peter Mörters	University of Cologne	The contact process on dynamical scale-free networks Note unusual day and room: 6W 1.2
20/02/23	Noah Halberstam	University of Cambridge	Infinite trees in the arboreal gas
27/02/23	Nic Küpper	University of Bath (PIMS)	The largest component in a subcritical Soft Random Geometric Graph
06/03/23	Dominic Yeo	King's College London	The critical window for random transposition random walk
13/03/23	Angelica Pachon	University of South Wales	Upper bounds for the largest component in critical inhomogeneous random graphs
20/03/23	Brett Kolesnik	University of Oxford	Random tournaments
27/03/23	Pawel Rudnicki	University of Bath (PIMS)	Reinforced digging random walks with linear reinforcement
17/04/23	Omer Bobrowski	Queen Mary	Homological Connectivity in Random Geometric Complexes and Poisson Approximation
24/04/23	Elnur Emrah	University of Bristol	Classifying boundary fluctuations for uniformly random Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns
09/05/23	Adam Bowditch	University College Dublin	Anomalous fluctuations of random walks Note unusual day and room: Tues in 6W 1.2
15/05/23	Sonny Medina Jimenez	University of Bath (PIMS)	Excursions from hyperplanes for the α-stable process
22/05/23	Matthieu Jonckheere	University of Toulouse	The critical parameter of Fermat distance

Semester 1

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
03/10/22	Amanda Turner	University of Leeds	Growth of stationary Hasting-Levitov
10/10/22	Martin Meier	University of Bath	Forward Induction in a Backward Inductive Manner
17/10/22	Tim Rogers	University of Bath	Structure from Stochasticity
24/10/22	David Croydon	Kyoto University	Sub-diffusive scaling regimes for one-dimensional Mott variable-range hopping
07/11/22	Jess Jay	University of Bristol	Second-Class Particles in ASEP under the Blocking Measure
14/11/22	Anja Sturm	University of Göttingen	On the contact process in an evolving edge random environment
21/11/22	Alex Drewitz	University of Cologne	Branching Brownian motion, branching random walks, and the Fisher-KPP equation in spatially random environment
28/11/22	Apolline Louvet	University of Bath (PIMS)	Some growth properties of the ∞-parent spatial Lambda-Fleming Viot process
05/12/22	Michel Pain	University of Toulouse	Extremes of time-inhomogeneous branching Brownian motion
12/12/22	Tyler Helmuth	Durham University	The Arboreal Gas
09/01/23	Yufei Zhang	London School of Economics	Exploration-exploitation trade-off for continuous-time reinforcement learning
16/01/23	Jonathan Jordan	University of Sheffield	Competing types in preferential attachment graphs with community structure

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)