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Probability seminars

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

Seminars 2024/25

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 1

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
30/09/24	Sarah-Jean Meyer	University of Oxford	The Forward Backward Approach to sine-Gordon up to 6p
07/10/24	Tommaso Rosati	University of Warwick	Lower bounds to energy dissipation in passive scalar advection
14/10/24	Sophie Laruelle	University Paris-Est Créteil	Urn Models and Stochastic Approximation : From Pólya Urns to Nonlinear Randomized Urns
21/10/24 at 14:15	James Foster and Dáire O'Kane (PIMS seminar)	University of Bath	On the convergence of adaptive approximations for SDEs / Simulating underdamped Langevin dynamics: A third order convergent method
28/10/24	Rivka Mitchell	University of Oxford	Discrete Snakes with Globally Centered Displacements
04/11/24	Gady Kozma	Weizmann Institute of Science	A reduction of the theta(p_c) problem to a conjectured inequality
11/11/24	Nikos Zygouras	University of Warwick	The Critical 2d Stochastic Heat Flow and Critical SPDEs
18/11/24	Giuseppe Cannizzaro	University of Warwick	Superdiffusive Central Limit Theorem for the critical Stochastic Burgers Equation
02/12/24	Matthew Jenssen	King's College London	Sphere packing in high dimensions
04/12/24 (note: Weds)	Shuo Qin	BIMSA, Beijing	Recurrence and transience of multidimensional elephant random walks
09/12/24	Thomas Powell	University of Bath	Quantitative results for stochastic processes
06/01/25	Avi Mayorcas (PIMS seminar)	University of Bath	Large deviations for the Φ43 measure via Stochastic Quantisation
13/01/25	Sefika Kuzgun	MPI Leipzig	Time-dependent averages of a critical long-range stochastic heat equation

Semester 2

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
03/02/25	Ajay Chandra	Imperial College London	Non-commutative singular SPDE
10/02/25	Daniel Heydecker	Imperial College London	The Porous Medium Equation: large deviations and gradient flow with degenerate and unbounded diffusion
17/02/25	Léonie Papon	Durham University	Interface scaling limit for the critical planar Ising model perturbed by a magnetic field
24/02/25	Yoan Tardy	Ecole Polytechnique	Collisions of the supercritical Keller-Segel particle system
03/03/25	Vianney Brouard	University of Bath (PIMS seminar)	How power-law mutation rates shape supercritical branching populations
10/03/25	Alexandre Stauffer	King's College London	Non-monotone phase transition in interacting particle systems
17/03/25	Marco Seiler	Goethe University Frankfurt	The Offended Voter Model
24/03/25	Vittoria Silvestri	Rome La Sapienza	Branching Internal DLA
31/03/25	Sebastien Martineau	University of Paris-Sud	Arithmetic percolation (or visibility in a crystal)
22/04/25	Hugo Vanneuville	Institut Fourier	TBC
28/04/25	Franco Severo	University of Lyon 1	TBC
05/05/25	Tom Klose	University of Oxford	TBC
12/05/25	TBA	University of Bath (PIMS seminar)	TBC
19/05/25	Serte Donderwinkel	University of Groningen	TBC

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)