Organizer: Sergey Lototsky.
Office: KAP 248D.
Phone: (213) 740-2389.
General description: This is class is run by the participating students, under the general guidance of the faculty organizer. The bottom line: at the end of the semester, each participant gets a letter grade, while the organizer does not get any teaching credit.
The objective is to give the students interested in probability and related ares of mathematics an opportunity to learn something new in a less formal environment. The basic topic of the seminar is usually decided around the first meeting of the semester; subsequent discussions can lead to a completely different direction.
As a rule, the seminar meets once a week for about two (astronomical) hours. The participants are also expected to attend department’s probability and statistics seminar, usually on Fridays, 3:30-4:30pm in KAP 414, as well as other probability-related talks at the CAMS, Department, and Math Finance colloquia.
The participants are encouraged to keep up-to-date on current developments in probability, statistics, and related areas by following the current postings on the pre-print site, for example the probability and statistics sections, and the papers published in journals such as (in alphabetical order)
Annals of Probability
Annals of Statistics
Electronic Journal of Probability
Probability Theory and Related Fields
Stochastic Processes and Their Applications
Summary of our previous activities
Spring 2010
Fall 2010
Spring 2011
Fall 2011
Spring 2013
Fall 2013
Spring 2014
Fall 2014
Spring 2015
Fall 2015
Spring 2016
Spring 2017
Fall 2017
Spring 2018
Fall 2018
Spring 2019
Fall 2019
Spring 2020
Fall 2020
Spring 2021
Fall 2021
Spring 2022
Spring 2023