Probability Seminar

Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado at Boulder

Spring 2010

Alternate Thursdays (more or less) 3:00-4:00 pm, Math 350


February 4 Brian Rider
Department of Mathematics
CU Boulder
Intro to the beta ensembles
February 11 Torsten Ehrhardt
Department of Mathematics
UC Santa Cruz
On the asymptotics of certain gap probabilities arising in Random Matrix Theory
February 18 Firas Rassoul-Agha
Department of Mathematics
University of Utah
Almost sure process-level large deviations for random walk in random environment
March 4 Balint Toth
Institute of Mathematics
Technical University Budapest
Brownian Random Polymers
March 12
note special day
Timo Seppalainen
Department of Mathematics
University of Wisonson, Madison
Scaling exponents for a one-dimensional directed polymer
March 18 Ofer Zeitouni
University of Minnesota
& Weizmann Institute
Non-normal random matrices and convergence to a ring
April 1 Bye week

April 15 Christopher Sinclair
Mathematics Department
University of Oregon
Random Matrix Theory when beta is an even square
April 29 Manuel Lladser
Applied Mathematics Department
CU Boulder
Prediction of the uncovered probability of n samples from an urn

Organizers: J. Englander (Janos.Englander@Colorado.edu) & B. Rider (Brian.Rider@Colorado.edu)