Seminar meets every Monday 1-3PM, on line.
Faculty Supervisor: Sergey Lototsky.
Office: KAP 248D.
Phone: (213) 740-2389.
Office Hours: MWF 11:30am-12:30pm.
Appointments at other time are welcome.
The objective this semester: To discuss current research projects and future plans of participating students.
Participating students: Maria Allayioti, Ujan Gangopadhyay, Melih Iseri, J. E. Paguyo, Austin Pollok, John Rahmani, Apoorva Shah, Alex Tarter, Yusheng Wu.
What we did
August 17 Introduction, general discussion, plans for the semester.
August 24 Presentation by Alex: optimality in sequential testing of multiple hypotheses.
August 31 Presentation by Yusheng: propagation of influence in social networks (in preparation for the oral exam).
September 7 Labor Day.
September 14 Presentation by John on cut-off phenomena for certain random walks on graphs.
September 21 Presentation by Apoorva on Gaussian free fields.
September 28 Presentation by Melih on stochastic games with multiple Nash equilibriua.
October 5 Presentation by JE: Jigsaw percolation on random graphs.
October 12 Presentation by Maria on M-estimators in a diffusion model.
October 19 Presentation by Ujan on superconcentration and chaos.
October 26 Discussion of future plans: John, Yusheng, Ujan.
November 2 Discussion of futire plans: JE, Apoorva, Alex, Melih.
November 9 Problem-solving session, lead by Alex.