Class meets every Friday 2-4PM in KAP 245; on line starting March 27.

Faculty Supervisor: Sergey Lototsky. 

Office: KAP 248D.

Phone: (213) 740-2389. 

Office Hours: MWF 10:30-11:30am.

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, Gin Park, J. E. Paguyo, Austin Pollok, John Rahmani, Apoorva Shah, Yusheng Wu.

What we did

  • January 17: Introduction and general discussion. Suggested plan is to have more frequent but shorter prsentations. People interested in the department probability/statistics seminar will be leaving early.

  • January 24: Presentation by JE on the frog model; Presentation by John on Bose-Einstein statitics.

  • January 31:  Presentation by Apoorva on ergodicity for SPDEs; Presentation by Austin on optimal contro.l

  • February 7: Presentation by Ujan on operator limits of random matrices.

  • February 14: Presentation by Gin on general properties of ergodic systems; Presentation by Yusheng on a cluster  search algorithm.

  • February 21: Presentation by John on mixing times and cut-offs in Markov chains.

  • February 28: Presentation by JE on couning Hamiltonian paths in a complete directed graph.

  • March 6: Presentation by Apoorva on ergodicity for SPDEs.

  • March 13: Presentation by Ujan on first passage percolation in complete graphs.

  • March 20: Spring break.

  • March 27: On-line presentation by Gin on invariant measures, ergodicity, and metric entropy of a dynamical system.

  • April 3: On-line presentation by Yusheng about statistical learning models on graphs.

  • April 10: On-line presentation by Austin (rehearsal for the oral exam).

  • April 17: On-line presentation by Apoorva (rehearsal for the oral exam).

  • April 24: On-line presentation by JE on threshhold phenomena for graph properties in random graphs.

  • May 1: On-line presentation by John about mixing times for random walks on groups.