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== Thursday, January 23, <span style="color:red"> CANCELED--NO SEMINAR </span>  ==


== Thursday, January 23, <span style="color:red"> CANCELED--NO SEMINAR </span>  ==


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[http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~mshkolni/ Mykhaylo Shkolnikov], UC-Berkeley Stats Dept==
'''Title: Intertwinings, wave equations and growth models'''
Abstract: We will discuss a general theory of intertwined diffusion processes of any dimension. Intertwined processes arise in many different contexts in probability theory, most notably in the study of random matrices, random polymers and path decompositions of Brownian motion. Recently, they turned out to be also closely related to hyperbolic partial differential equations, symmetric polynomials and the corresponding random growth models. The talk will be devoted to these recent developments which also shed new light on some beautiful old examples of intertwinings. Based on joint works with Vadim Gorin and Soumik Pal.
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== Thursday, February 6, [http://people.mbi.ohio-state.edu/newby.23/ Jay Newby],  [http://mbi.osu.edu/ Mathematical Biosciences Institute]  ==
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We give a proof of principle, showing that even a simplistic application of the model can quantify differences in diversity between regions with varying recombination rates.  We also suggest a number of directions for applying and extending the model.
We give a proof of principle, showing that even a simplistic application of the model can quantify differences in diversity between regions with varying recombination rates.  We also suggest a number of directions for applying and extending the model.
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== <span style="color:red"> Tuesday, October 22, 4pm, Van Vleck 901</span>, Anton Wakolbinger, Goethe Universität Frankfurt ==
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Fall 2014

Thursdays in 901 Van Vleck Hall at 2:25 PM, unless otherwise noted.

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Thursday, January 23, CANCELED--NO SEMINAR

Thursday, March 20, No Seminar due to Spring Break

Thursday, March 27, Cécile Ané, UW-Madison Department of Statistics

Title: Application of a birth-death process to model gene gains and losses on a phylogenetic tree

Abstract: Over time, genes can duplicate or be lost. The history of a gene family is a tree whose nodes represent duplications, speciations, or losses. A birth-and-death process is used to model this gene family tree, embedded within a species tree. I will present this phylogenetic version of the birth and death tree process, along with a probability model for whole-genome duplications. If there is interest and time, I will talk about learning birth and death rates and detecting ancient whole-genome duplications from genomic data.


Thursday, April 10, Dan Romik UC-Davis

Title: Connectivity patterns in loop percolation and pipe percolation

Abstract:

Loop percolation is a random collection of closed cycles in the square lattice Z^2, that is closely related to critical bond percolation. Its "connectivity pattern" is a random noncrossing matching associated with a loop percolation configuration that encodes information about connectivity of endpoints. The same probability measure on noncrossing matchings arises in several different and seemingly unrelated settings, for example in connection with alternating sign matrices, the quantum XXZ spin chain, and another type of percolation model called pipe percolation. In the talk I will describe some of these connections and discuss some results about the study of pipe percolation from the point of view of the theory of interacting particle systems. I will also mention the "rationality phenomenon" which causes the probabilities of certain natural connectivity events to be dyadic rational numbers such as 3/8, 97/512 and 59/1024. The reasons for this are not completely understood and are related to certain algebraic conjectures that I will discuss separately in Friday's talk in the Applied Algebra seminar.


Thursday, May 1, Antonio Auffinger U Chicago

Title: Strict Convexity of the Parisi Functional

Spin glasses are magnetic systems exhibiting both quenched disorder and frustration, and have often been cited as examples of "complex systems." As mathematical objects, they provide several fascinating structures and conjectures. This talk will cover recent progress that shed more light in the mysterious and beautiful solution proposed 30 years ago by G. Parisi. We will focus on properties of the free energy of the famous famous Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model and we will explain a recent proof of the strict convexity of the Parisi functional. Based on a joint work with Wei-Kuo Chen.

Thursday, May 8, Steve Goldstein, WID

Title: Modeling patterns of DNA sequence diversity with Cox Processes

Abstract: Events in the evolutionary history of a population can leave subtle signals in the patterns of diversity of its DNA sequences. Identifying those signals from the DNA sequences of present-day populations and using them to make inferences about selection is a well-studied and challenging problem.

Next generation sequencing provides an opportunity for making inroads on that problem. In this talk, I will present a novel model for the analysis of sequence diversity data and use the model to motivate analyses of whole-genome sequences from 11 strains of Drosophila pseudoobscura.

The model treats the polymorphic sites along the genome as a realization of a Cox Process, a point process with a random intensity. Within the context of this model, the underlying problem translates to making inferences about the distribution of the intensity function, given the sequence data.

We give a proof of principle, showing that even a simplistic application of the model can quantify differences in diversity between regions with varying recombination rates. We also suggest a number of directions for applying and extending the model. -->


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