Probability seminars 2018-19

Semester 1

Wednesdays at 3pm, Room 125 Science North
Oct 10 Antoine Dahlqvist (UCD) Free probability and permutation invariant random matrices
Oct 17 Elia Bisi (UCD) How long does it take 
to go through a sequence of N queues?
Nov 14 Jon Warren (Warwick) Random matrices and point to line last passage percolation
Nov 21 Antoine Dahlqvist (UCD) Wishart matrices and Hurwitz numbers
Nov 28 Fabio Deelan Cunden (UCD) Free fermions and α-determinantal processes

Semester 2

Wednesdays at 2pm, Room 125 Science North (Unless indicated otherwise)
Jan 23 (3pm) Nial Friel (UCD) Informed sub-sampling MCMC: Approximate Bayesian inference for large datasets
Jan 30 Ken Duffy (Maynooth) Reliable communication over noisy channels by Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND)
Feb 6 Jonas Arista (UCD) Loop-erased walks and random matrices
Feb 13 Neil Dobbs (UCD) Kneading dough badly
Feb 20 Andrew Smith (UCD) Robust Loss Distributions
Feb 27 Larbi Alili (Warwick) Space time inversions and Kelvin Transform
Mar 6 Ben Hambly (Oxford) Particle systems and systemic risk
Mar 27 Christian Korff (Glasgow) Cylindric symmetric functions and positivity

Semester 3

Wednesdays at 2pm, Room 125 Science North (Unless indicated otherwise)
June 12 Satya Majumdar (Orsay) Rotating trapped fermions in 2d and the complex Ginibre ensemble
June 19 Nick Simm (Sussex) Critical behaviour and characteristic polynomials of random matrices