Graduate student reading seminar
Time and place: Tuesday 2:20PM-4PM, Van Vleck 903
Determinantal point processes
Determinantal point processes: Chapters 4 and 6
Determinantal random point fields by Alexander Soshnikov
Terry Tao's blog entry on determinantal point processes
Random matrices and determinantal processes by K. Johansson
Determinantal point processes by A. Borodin
September 13: start reading the HKPV book (Chapter 4). You can also have a look at the other survey articles listed above.
September 20: finish Section 4.2 and go through the first example in 4.3 (non-intersecting random walks)
September 27: Corollary 4.3.3, the rest of the examples in 4.3 and 4.4 (how to generate determinantal processes)
October 1: there is no reading seminar (you should go to the Probability Seminar instead)
October 8: start reading Section 4.5
Electrical networks
Random Walks and Electric Networks by Doyle and Snell
Probability on Trees and Networks by Russell Lyons with Yuval Peres