Statistical Laboratory Seminars

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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