Past Probability Seminars Spring 2020
Spring 2020
Thursdays in 901 Van Vleck Hall at 2:30 PM, unless otherwise noted. We usually end for questions at 3:20 PM.
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January 23, 2020, Timo Seppalainen (UW Madison)
Non-existence of bi-infinite geodesics in the exponential corner growth model
Whether bi-infinite geodesics exist has been a significant open problem in first- and last-passage percolation since the mid-80s. A non-existence proof in the case of directed planar last-passage percolation with exponential weights was posted by Basu, Hoffman and Sly in November 2018. Their proof utilizes estimates from integrable probability. This talk describes an independent proof completed 10 months later that relies on couplings, coarse graining, and control of geodesics through planarity and increment-stationary last-passage percolation. Joint work with Marton Balazs and Ofer Busani (Bristol).
January 30, 2020, Scott Smith (UW Madison)
February 6, 2020, Cheuk-Yin Lee (Michigan State)
February 13, 2020, Jelena Diakonikolas (UW Madison)
February 20, 2020, Philip Matchett Wood (UC Berkeley)
February 27, 2020, TBA
March 5, 2020, Jiaoyang Huang (IAS)
March 12, 2020, TBA
March 26, 2020, Philippe Sosoe (Cornell)
April 2, 2020, TBA
April 9, 2020, TBA
TBA
April 16, 2020, TBA
TBA
April 22-24, 2020, FRG Integrable Probability meeting
April 30, 2020, Will Perkins (University of Illinois at Chicago)
TBA