Seminar meets on line on Mondays or Wednesdays, either 2-4pm or 3-5pm. The exact time will be set a week in advance, depending on other seminar schedule
Faculty Supervisor: Sergey Lototsky.
Office: KAP 248D.
Phone: (213) 740-2389.
Office Hours: most MWF 12:30-1 and 2-2:30pm.
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, Gin Park, John Rahmani, Alex Tarter, Apoorva Shah, Yusheng Wu.
What we did.
Wednesday, January 20, 2-4pm. Presentation by John “What is…mixing time of a Markov chain” in preparation for the talk at the “What is…” seminar:
https://sites.google.com/view/whatisaseminar/schedule?authuser=0
Wednesday, January 27, 2-4pm. Presentation by Ujan about first-order logic on (Poisson) Galton-Watson trees.
Wednesday, February 3, 2-4pm. Presentation by Alex about voting functions and Gaussian partitions.
Monday, February 8, 2-4pm. Presentation by JE about Poisson approximation in the study of random chord diagrams
Wednesday, February 17, 2-4pm. My presentation about Gaussian free field and stochastic heat equation.
Wednesday, February 24, 3-5pm. John’s defense.
Wednesday, March 3, 2-4pm. Presentation by Melih on mean-field games with multiple Nash equilibriums.
Wednesday, March 10, 2-4pm. Presentation by Yusheng about reducing the model dimension using UMAP (uniform manifold approximation and projection)
Wednesday, March 17, 2-4pm. Presentation by Gin on open dynamical systems and escape rates.
Wednesday, March 24, 2-4pm. Presentation by Apoorva about ergodicity of non-linear dissipative SPDEs.
Wednesday, March 31, 2-4pm. Discussion of the paper “Designing Stable Elections” by Steven Heilman (AMS Notices, Vol 68, No 4 [April 2021], pp. 516-527).
Wednesday, April 7. No meeting (wellness day).
Wednesday, April 14, 2-4pm. Presentation by Maria on M-estimators for coefficients of a heat equation.
Wednesday, April 21, 2-4pm. Presentation by Alex (preparation for the oral exam).