Maxima on trees This talk will focus on the study of the endogenous solution to the high-order Lindley equation. The solution we are interested in corresponds to the maxima of a “perturbed” branching random walk, and it includes as a … Read more
Miheer Dewaskar University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Asymptotic analysis of the power of choice phenomenon for queuing models Suppose that n balls are to be sequentially placed into n bins with the objective of keeping the maximum load … Read more
Sparse random graphs with overlapping community structure In this talk we introduce two different random graph models that produce sparse graphs with overlapping community structure and discuss community detection in each context. The Random Overlapping Community (ROC) model produces a … Read more
Probability Seminar Thursday, February 13th, 2020 Hanes 125 4:15 PM Brendan Brown UNC Chapel Hill Exponentially fast convergence of an Inert drift system The talk will explore an inert drift system, describing the joint motion of a massive particle in fluid as … Read more
Probability Seminar Thursday, February 20th, 2020 Hanes 125 4:15 PM Dong Yao Duke University, Mathematics Department Epidemics on Evolving Graphs The evoSIR model is a modification of the usual SIR process on a graph G in which S−I … Read more
Alexandre Pannier Imperial College and Princeton University Pathwise large deviations for white noise chaos expansions We consider a family of continuous processes, measurable with respect to a white noise measure, and characterised by their Wiener chaos expansion. We provide sufficient conditions for their … Read more
Title: A Notion of Stability for Solutions of Random Optimization Problems. Abstract Consider the Euclidean traveling salesman problem with n random points on the plane. Suppose that one of the points is shifted to a new random location. This … Read more
Short Biography:David Aldous is Professor Emeritus in the Statistics Dept at U.C. Berkeley. He is the author of "Probability Approximations via the Poisson Clumping Heuristic" and (with Jim Fill) of a notorious unfinished online work "Reversible Markov Chains and Random Walks … Read more
