Seminar meets on zoom on Mondays 3-5pm.
Faculty Supervisor: Sergey Lototsky.
Office: KAP 248D.
Phone: (213) 740-2389.
Office Hours: in-person MWF 8-8:30am and 10-10:30am; on zoom MWF 6-7pm
Appointments at other time are welcome.
The objective this semester: To discuss current research projects and future plans of participating students.
Participating students: Melih Iseri, Abdullah Karakus, J. E. Paguyo, Gin Park, Austin Pollok, Apoorva Shah, Alex Tarter, Yusheng Wu.
What we did.
August 30. Organizational meeting.
September 6. No meeting (Labor Day)
September 13. Discussion about writing a diversity statement, followed by Apoorva’s presentation about getting, and then surviving, a summer internship.
September 20. Discussion about writing a diversity statement, followed by JE’s presentation about Poisson approximation in several discrete probability models (preparation for the oral exam).
September 27. Discussion about writing a diversity statement, followed by Abdullah’s presentation on first passage percolation.
October 4. Conclusion of the discussion about writing a diversity statement.
October 11. A discussion about writing a research statement, followed by Gin’s presentation on return times in open dynamical systems (preparation for the oral exam).
October 18. A discussion about writing research and teaching statements, followed by Austin’s presentation on theoretical and empirical aspects of the Kelly criterion (preparation for defense).
October 25. A discussion about writing teaching statement, followed by Yusheng’s presentation on random matrix models in preferential attachment (preparation for defense).
November 1. A discussion about writing the cover letter, followed by Apoorva’s presentation about invariant measures for stochastic reaction-diffusion equations.
November 8. A discussion about getting recommendation letters, followed by JE’s presentation about applications of dependency graphs to prove central limit theorems.
November 15. A discussion about writing CV and resume, followed by Alex’s presentation about Stein-Malliavin method for Rademacher functionals.
November 22. A discussion about preparation for an academic job interview, followed by Gin’s presentation on localized escape rates in phi-mixing systems.
November 29. A summary of our discussions about academic job search, followed by Melih’s presentation on set values for mean field games.