Past Tutorial Program Speakers of the Midwest Probability Colloquium

2025:   Random Matrix Theory: A Journey from Eigenvalues to Aztec Diamonds, I & II (Alan Edelman)

2024:   Canonical Correlation Analysis: I. Independent Datasets; II. Search for the Signal (Vadim Gorin)

2023: A New Approach to Nonasymptotic Random Matrix Theory, I & II (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, I & II (Shankar Bhamidi)

2016: Concentration of Random Matrices and Applications, I & II (Roman Vershynin)

2015: Scaling Limits of Stochastic Networks, I & II(Kavita Ramanan)

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

2013: Random Walks on Groups, I & II (Steve Lalley and Francois LeDrappier)

2012: Probability in Biomathematics, I & II (Steve Evans and David Steinsaltz)

2011: Optimal Transportation, I & II (Karl-Theodor Sturm and Alessio Figalli)

2010: Interacting Particle Systems, I & II (Timo Seppalainen and Firas Rassoul-Agha)

2009: Rough Path Theory, I & II (Terry Lyons and Tom Cass)

2008: Fractional Brownian Motion, I & II (David Nualart and Fabrice Baudoin)

2007: Hydrodynamical Limits, I & II (S.R.S.Varadhan and Jeremy Quastel)

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

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

2004: Random Matrices, I & II (Kenneth McLaughlin and Peter Miller)

2003: Wavelets in Theoretical Statistics, I & II (Iain Johnstone and Cun-Hui Zhang)

2002: Discrete Critical Processes, I & II (Yuval Perez and Bilant Virag)

2001: Random Matrices, I & II (Janko Gravner and Jason Fulman)

2000: Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, I & II (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)

1996: Analysis on Path and Loop Spaces, I & II (Bruce Driver)

1995: Weak Convergence and Large Deviations, I & II (R. S. Ellis and P. Dupuis)

1994: ????

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

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

1991: Stochastic Differential Geometry, I & II (Mark Pinsky and Elton P. Hsu)

1990: Statistical Estimation, I & II (S. Csorgo and R. Z. Khasminksii)

1989: Almost Everywhere Convergence and Diffusion Processes (Two Week-long Conferences)

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

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

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