Schedule

Schedule for Spring 2024 

345 AH, Thursdays at 2 pm.

This semester we are studying Large Deviation Principle. Here are some references:

• Firas Rassoul-Agha and Timo Seppäläinen's  A Course on Large Deviations with an Introduction to Gibbs Measures,

• Amir Dembo and Ofer Zeitouni's  Large Deviations Techniques and Applications.

The tentative schedule is:

• Feb 1  Introduction (Daecheol)

• Feb 8  Basic Techniques for LDP (Daecheol)

• Feb 15  Canceled

• Feb 22  Cramér's Theorem (Daecheol)

• Feb 29  Contraction Principle and Varadhan's Theorem (Jaya)

• Mar 21  LDP in Curie Weiss Model for Ferromagnetism (Jaya)

• Mar 28  Sanov's Theorem (Daecheol)

• Apr 4  Maximum Entropy Principle and Equivalence of Ensembles (Daecheol)

• Apr 11  (Sujeet)

• Apr 18  (Sujeet)

• Apr 25 TBD