Past Tutorial Program Speakers of the Midwest Probability Colloquium

2023: A New Approach to Nonasymptotic Random Matrix Theory (Ramon van Handel)

2022: Spectra of Random Graphs: I. Shape and Connection With Random Matrices; II. Outliers (Ioana Dumitriu)

2020: Random Current Representation of the Ising Model and its Application to Gaussianity in High Dimensions, I & II (Hugo Duminil-Copin)

2019: Probabilistic Symmetry and Network Models, I & II (Harry Crane)

2018: A Biased Talk Through Mathematical Phylogenomics, I & II (Sebastian Roch)

2017: Two Themes in Dynamic Network Models: Critical Scaling Limits and Reinforcement Processes (ShankarBhamidi)

2016: Concentration of Random Matrices and Applications (Roman Vershynin)

2015: Scaling Limits of Stochastic Networks (Kavita Ramanan)

2014: Stein's Method: Distributional Approximation and Concentration of Measure (Larry Goldstein)

2013: Random Walks on Groups (Steve Lalley and Francois LeDrappier)

2012: Probability in Biomathematics (Steve Evans and David Steinsaltz)

2011: Optimal Transportation (Karl-Theodor Sturm and Alessio Figalli)

2010: Interacting Particle Systems (Timo Seppalainen and Firas Rassoul-Agha)

2009: Rough Path Theory (Terry Lyons and Tom Cass)

2008: Fractional Brownian Motion (David Nualart and Fabrice Baudoin)

2007: Hydrodynamical Limits (S.R.S.Varadhan and Jeremy Quastel)

2006: Random Walks and Stochastic Loewner's Evolution (Greg Lawler and Scott Sheffield)

2005: A Tuturial on Lipschitz-Killing Curvature and Weyl's Tube Formula (Robert Adler and Jonathan Taylor)

2004: Random Matrices (Kenneth McLaughlin and Peter Miller)

2003: Wavelets in Theoretical Statistics (Iain Johnstone and Cun-Hui Zhang)

2002: Discrete Critical Processes (Yuval Perez and Bilant Virag)

2001: Random Matrices (Janko Gravner and Jason Fulman)

2000: Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (Jin Ma)

1999: ????

1998: Stochastic Financial Models (Two-day workshop by Dilip Madan, Peter Carr, Marco Avellaneda, Costis Skiadis, and David Heath)

1997: Conference on Probability, Analysis and Ergodic Theory, in honor of the retirement of Alexandra Bellow (Four-day
        conference by ten speakers)

1996: Analysis on Path and Loop Spaces (Bruce Driver)

1995: Weak Convergence and Large Deviations (R. S. Ellis and P. Dupuis)

1994: ????

1993: Probabilistic Number Theory (Walter Phillips, P. Elliott, and A. Hildebrand)

1992: Random Partitions (P. Diaconis, W. Ewens, and J. Pitman)

1991: Stochastic Differential Geometry (Mark Pinsky and Elton P. Hsu)

1990: Statistical Estimation (S. Csorgo and R. Z. Khasminksii)

1989: Almost Everywhere Convergence and Diffusion Processes (Two week-long conferences)

1988: Lyapunov Exponents: (Charles Newman, Peter Baxendale, W. Faris, S. Mohammed, V. Wihstutz, W. Klieman and E. Key)

1987: Stochastic Analysis (Mark Freidlin, D. Dawson, and C. Bezuidenhout)

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