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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<\/p>\n

Faculty Supervisor:\u00a0<\/strong>Sergey Lototsky.<\/p>\n

Office:<\/strong>\u00a0KAP 248D.<\/p>\n

Phone:<\/strong>\u00a0(213) 740-2389.<\/p>\n

Office Hours:<\/strong> most MWF 12:30-1 and 2-2:30pm.<\/p>\n

Appointments at other time are welcome.<\/p>\n

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The objective this semester:\u00a0<\/strong>To discuss current research projects and future plans of participating students.<\/p>\n

Participating students: <\/strong>Maria Allayioti, <\/span>Ujan Gangopadhyay, Melih Iseri, J. E. Paguyo, Gin Park, John Rahmani, Alex Tarter, Apoorva Shah,\u00a0 Yusheng Wu.<\/p>\n

What we did.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday, January 20, 2-4pm.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Presentation by John “What is…mixing time of a Markov chain” in preparation for the talk at the “What is…” seminar:<\/p>\n

\u00a0https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/whatisaseminar\/schedule?authuser=0<\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday, January 27, 2-4pm.\u00a0 <\/strong>Presentation by Ujan about first-order logic on (Poisson) Galton-Watson trees.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 3<\/strong>, 2-4pm.\u00a0 <\/strong>Presentation by Alex about voting functions and Gaussian partitions.<\/p>\n

Monday, February 8, 2-4pm.\u00a0 <\/strong>Presentation by JE about Poisson approximation in the study of random chord diagrams<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 17, 2-4pm<\/strong>. My presentation about Gaussian free field and stochastic heat equation.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 24, 3-5pm<\/strong>. John’s defense.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 3, 2-4pm.<\/strong> Presentation by Melih on mean-field games with multiple Nash equilibriums.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 10, 2-4pm. <\/strong>Presentation by Yusheng about reducing the model dimension using UMAP (uniform manifold approximation and projection)<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 17,<\/strong><\/strong> 2-4pm.\u00a0<\/strong>Presentation by Gin on open dynamical systems and escape rates.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 24, 2-4pm<\/strong>. Presentation by Apoorva about ergodicity of non-linear dissipative SPDEs.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 31, 2-4pm. <\/strong>Discussion of the paper “Designing Stable Elections” by Steven Heilman\u00a0 (AMS Notices, Vol 68, No 4 [April 2021], pp. 516-527).<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 7<\/strong>. No meeting (wellness day).<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 14, 2-4pm<\/strong>. Presentation by Maria on M-estimators for coefficients of a heat equation.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 21, 2-4pm.<\/strong> Presentation by Alex (preparation for the oral exam).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-557","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMath 705, Seminar in Probability, Spring 2021 - Sergey Lototsky<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sergey-lototsky\/math-705-spring-2021\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Math 705, Seminar in Probability, Spring 2021 - Sergey Lototsky\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sergey-lototsky\/math-705-spring-2021\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sergey Lototsky\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-26T01:29:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sergey-lototsky\/math-705-spring-2021\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/sergey-lototsky\/math-705-spring-2021\/\",\"name\":\"Math 705, Seminar in Probability, Spring 2021 - 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