Arash Jamshidpey

Selected Talks

• Asymptotic behavior of multiple samples drawn from a birth process with immigration, Mathematical and Computational Methods in Cancer and Biology Symposium, Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics, New York, March 2023.

• A branching model for COVID-19 sample arrivals at a database, JMM 2023, Boston, Jan 2023.

• Stochastic population dynamics, Columbia Undergraduate Math Society, March 2022.

• Medians, midpoints, and phylogenetic inference, Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics and Department of Mathematics, March 2022.

• The Feller Coupling for random derangements, 34th New England Statistics Symposium, October 2021.

• Fleming-Viot processes in random environment, York University, probability seminar, Toronto, Oct 2018.

• Interacting populations in fluctuating environment, Goethe University Frankfurt, invited stochastik-kolloquium Frankfurt, June 2018.

• Median problem and phylogeny reconstruction, Stanford University, invited seminar-video conference, June 2018. 

• Median problem, phylogeny reconstruction and some other topics in population genetics, ETH Zurich, invited seminar, May 2018.

• Fleming-Viot processes with fluctuating selection, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), invited probability seminar, Jan 2018. 

• Quenched martingale problem, duality method, and some applications for population models in random environments, McMaster University, invited probability seminar, Oct 2017.

• Population models with fluctuating environments, McGill University, invited Montreal probability seminar, Nov 2016.

• Population models in random environment, University of Texas A&M, invited probability seminar, Feb 2016.

• Geometric median problem and approximating divergence time in genomic evolutionary models, UC Berkeley, invited seminar, Oct 2014.

• Sets of medians in the non-geodesic pseudometric space of unsigned genomes with breakpoints, RECOMB CG 2014, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Oct 2014.

• The geometric median of samples from measures induced by simple random walks, Random walk and geometry, Canadian mathematical society (CMS), Ottawa, Dec 2013.

• Moran model with i.i.d. and almost surely convergent fitness functions, CMS, Ottawa, Dec 2013.

• Stochastic DCJ jump process on signed permutation groups and the validity of the median as an approximation to the true ancestor, Mathematical genomics, CMS, Ottawa, Dec 2013.

• Phase change for the accuracy of the median value in estimating divergence time, Recomb CG 2013, Lyon, France, Oct 2013.

• Median problem, tree indexed random walk, and phylogeny reconstruction, Workshop in Coalescent theory and its application, Montreal, Oct 2013. 

• A bridge from population genetics to neuroscience, Sixth Summer School on Computational Neuroscience, Ottawa, Summer 2013.

• When do medians approximate the initial state of k independent random walks on symmetric groups?, University of Ottawa, March 2013.

• Random walks and geometric medians, University of Ottawa, Summer 2011.

• Series of lectures on Schramm-Loewner Evolution, Sharif University, spring 2008. 

• Conditioned Random Walks, random Young tableaux, and the RSK Algorithm, Sharif U, Winter 2008. 

• A Perfect 1-Factorization of K_2p, Sharif U.