Class meets Friday 10AM to 12 PM in KAP 245
Organizer: Sergey Lototsky.
Office: KAP 248D.
Phone: (213) 740-2389.
Office Hours: MW 10:00-10:50am F 9:00-9:50am.
Walk-ins and appointments at other time are welcome.
The objective this semester: To discuss current research projects and future plans of participating students.
Participating students: Ujan Gangopadhyay, Hyun-Jung Kim, Alperen Ozdemir, Chukiat Phonsom, Jian Wang.
What we did.
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August 25: Introduction and plans for the semester.
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September 1: Presentation by Phonsom on analytical theory of stochastic parabolic equations with a non-local evolution operator (in preparation for the oral exam).
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September 8: Presentation by Ujan on the method of stochastic approximation in the study of generalized urn models.
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September 15: Presentation by Alperen on partial ordering of integer partitions. Bottom line: two typical partitions of a large number are usually not comparable.
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September 22 and 29: Presentations by Hyun-Jung about KPZ universality.
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October 6: Chukiat’s oral exam (with full success).
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October 13: Presentation by Jian on statistical inference in second-order auto-regressions with dependent noise.
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October 20: A discussion of possibilities for summer schools and workshops in 2018, with contributions from all.
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October 27: Presentation by Ujan on discrete-space Gaussian free fields.
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November 3: Presentation by Ujan on the first-passage percolation.
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November 10: Presentation by Alperen on mixing rates for certain Markov chains on the symmetric group.
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November 17: Presentation by Hyun-Jung on the parabolic Anderson model (practice defence)
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November 24: Thanksgiving break