2020
10 January, 3pm: Codina Cotar, Optimal transport I
17 January, 3pm: Codina Cotar, Optimal transport II
24 January, 3pm: Terry Soo, The isomorphism problem in ergodic theory I
31 January, 3pm: Terry Soo, The isomorphism problem in ergodic theory II
7 February, 4pm: Alex Watson, Lévy processes I. Introduction
14 February, 3pm: Alex Watson, Lévy processes II. Lévy-Itô decomposition
28 February, 3pm: Alex Watson, Lévy processes III. Connection with branching processes
6th March, 3pm: Camilo Garcia Trillos, BSDEs and applications I
15th May, 3pm: Camilo Garcia Trillos, BSDEs and applications II
5th June, 3pm: Codina Cotar, Gradient Models
12th June, 3pm: Anne Pein (TUM), Random attractors for stochastic partly dissipative systems
3 July, 3pm: Stas Volkov (Lund University), About discrete Bak-Sneppen model
17 July, 3pm: Bastien Mallein (Paris 13), A continuous-time version of the Derrida–Retaux model
31 July, 3pm: Sandra Palau (UNAM), Critical branching processes in random environment
21 August, 3pm: Andrew Wade (Durham University), Deposition, diffusion, and nucleation on an interval
2021
28 May, 3pm: Kayvan Sadeghi (UCL), On Probabilistic Independence Models and Graphs
4 June, 3pm: Zemer Kosloff (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), On the local limit theorem in dynamical systems
11 June, 3pm: Sayan Banerjee (UNC Chapel Hill), Persistence and root detection algorithms in growing networks
18 June, 3pm: Sam Livingstone, Non-reversible Markov chains and piece-wise deterministic processes
25 June, 3pm: David Brydges (UBC), Lace expansions and spin models I
2 July, 3pm: David Brydges (UBC), Lace expansions and spin models II
9 July, 3pm: Tyler Helmuth (U Durham), The Arboreal Gas
16 July, 3pm: Cecile Mailler (U Bath), The ants walk: finding geodesics in graphs using reinforcement learning
2022
4 March, 3pm: Augusto Gerolin (U Ottawa), Duality approach to Entropy-regularized Optimal Transport, Sinkhorn algorithm and applications to Generative Models
30 September, 3pm: Alessandra Cipriani (UCL), Scale-free percolation mixing time
14 October, 3pm: Samuel Johnston (University of Bath), The bead process on the torus
28 October, 3pm: David Padilla-Garza (TU Dresden), Large Deviations Principles for Coulomb gases at intermediate temperature regime
2023
27th January, 3pm: Sam Power (U Bristol), Explicit convergence bounds for Metropolis Markov chains
10th February, 3pm: Giorgos Vasdekis (UCL): Speeding up the Zig-Zag process
23rd February, 4pm: Aranka Hrušková (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and Central European University), Finite exchangeable graphs
24th March, 3pm: Simone Floreani (University of Oxford), A system of interacting Bouchard trap models
21st April, 3pm: Leandro Chiarini (Utrecht University), Scaling limits and fluctuations of discrete stochastic PDEs
12th May, 3pm: Giuseppe Cannizzaro (University of Warwick), Diffusion in the curl of the two-dimensional Gaussian Free Field
26th May, 3pm: Guillaume Conchon-Kerjan (King's College London), A Gaussian cousin to the Erdős–Rényi graph
2nd June, 3pm: Georges Kassis (UCL), Arcade Processes for Informed Martingale Interpolation and Transport
9th June, 3pm: Giordano Giambartolomei (King's College), The edge-reinforced branching random walk on the triangle and generalised balls and bins with positive feedback
23rd June, 3pm: Leonard Wong (U Toronto), From distributional data in finance to the Bregman-Wasserstein divergence
6th October, 3pm: Linglong Yuan (University of Liverpool), A growth-fragmentation-isolation process on random recursive trees and contact tracing
20th October, 3pm: Natalia Cardona-Tobón (Georg-August Universität Göttingen), Yaglom’s limit for Galton-Watson processes in varying environment
2024
13 February, 2pm: Tyler Helmuth (U Durham), Directed Spatial Permutations on Asymmetric Tori
1 March, 11 am: Matija Vidmar (U Ljubljana), Stability and sensitivity of random variables, d'après Tsirelson
7 March, 4PM: Ian Melbourne (U Warwick), Wong-Zakai approximation of stochastic integrals
8 March, 3PM: Brett Kolesnik (U Oxford), H-percolation with a random H
15 March, 1 - 4pm, Bloomsbury Probability Colloquium
22 March, 3pm: Randolf Altmeyer (U Cambridge), Polynomial time guarantees for sampling based posterior inference
26 April, 3pm: Mark Jerrum (QMUL), Perfect sampling, old and new
17 May, 3pm: Victor Rivero (CIMAT), room 115, Recurrent extensions and stochastic differential equations
7 June, 3pm: Emma Horton (Warwick), room 115, Monte Carlo methods for branching processes
14 June, 12pm: Nick Schleicher (Universität zu Köln), room G20, Subcritical inhomogeneous random graphs of preferential attachment type
24 June, 3pm: Mei Yin (U Denver), room G12, Parking functions: probabilistic and combinatorial
23 August, 3pm: Matthew Dickson (University of British Columbia), room G08, On Operators and Mean-Field Percolation in Marked Random Connection Models
10 September: London Probability Day
18 October, 3pm: Yushi Hamaguchi (Kyoto University), A generalized coupling approach for the weak approximation of stochastic functional differential equations
25 October, 3pm: Lucile Laulin (University Paris Nanterre), On the superdiffusive limit of the Elephant Random Walk
8 November, 3pm: PCG Vassiliou, (University College London), Weak ergodicity in Non-Homogeneous Markov Systems