Informal Probability Seminars
Michaelmas Term 1999
The canonical time is Tuesday afternoon, but some
talks are on other afternoons.
All interested are encouraged
to take part to the full by presenting their ideas and discussing
those of others. Graduate students especially are urged to attend.
All talks will be in Room S27 of the Laboratory, unless
otherwise announced.
Wednesday October 6
2.00pm N. Vvedenskaya (Moscow)
New results on load balanced networks
Tuesday October 12
2.00pm Neil O'Connell (BRIMS, HP Labs, Bristol)
Renormalisation of hierarchical sequences
Tuesday October 19
2.00pm James Norris
A naive survey of random matrix theory
Tuesday October 26
2.00pm Dan Crisan
Particle filters
Tuesday November 2
2.00pm Raphael Cerf (Paris)
On the Wulff crystal in the Ising model
Tuesday November 9
5.00pm Andrew Barbour (Zurich)
Note change of time
De Moivre, Poisson, and total variation
Tuesday November 16
2.00pm Alan Stacey
Dependent percolation models
Tuesday November 23
2.00pm Jonathan Keating (Bristol)
Random matrix theory and $\zeta(1/2+it)$
Friday November 26
2.00pm Jean Bertoin (Paris)
A system of sticky particles and the additive coalescent.
Tuesday November 30
2.00pm Yoav Git
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