Past Events

In this talk I will be speaking about the dimer model sampled on a general Riemann surface. Dimer model on a graph consists of sampling a random perfect matching with the probability proportional to the product of edge weights. In the case when the...

We consider the problem of minimizing the average of a large number of smooth but possibly non-convex functions. For machine learning applications, the loss functions are mostly non-negative and thus can be written as the composition of the square...

Cells must reliably coordinate responses to noisy external stimuli for proper functionality. In this talk I will present a perspective on this important problem via extreme statistics. The central premise is that when a single stochastic process...

In this talk, I will discuss my on-going joint work with Xiannan Li on an unconditional asymptotic formula for the eighth moment of Γ1(q) L-functions, which are associated with eigenforms for the congruence subgroups Γ1(q). Similar to a large family...

The Birnbaum Lecture in Probability will be delivered by Robin Pemantle (University of Pennsylvania) in 2023. Northwest Probability Seminars are mini-conferences held at the University of Washington and organized in collaboration with the Oregon...

Variational phase-field models of fracture have been at the center of a multidisciplinary effort involving a large community of mathematicians, mechanicians, engineers, and computational scientists over the last 25 years or so. I will start with a...

In life history studies one often encounters situations where individuals in a population are eligible to enroll only if the response time does not exceed an associated censoring time, which leads to the so called left truncated lifetime data. While...

Kemeny's constant, a fundamental parameter in the theory of Markov chains, has recently received significant attention within the graph theory community. Originally defined for a discrete, finite, time-homogeneous, and irreducible Markov chain based...

Fano varieties are projective algebraic variety with “positive curvature”. Recently, using the notion of K-stability which originates in differential geometry, projective moduli spaces for Fano varieties have been constructed. In this talk I will...

Recent decades have seen a lot of progress in the "orbital circle method" attacking classical problems from dynamics, geometry, and number theory under the umbrella of "thin groups". There was always a danger that the circle method was too crude a...