• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: James Martin (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford) , Christina Goldschmidt (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford) , Julien Berestycki (University of Oxford) , Matthias Winkel (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
• Timing: Mondays at 2pm each week of term (timings may vary occasionally, especially in Bank Holiday weeks)
• Organising department: Department of Statistics

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - On the number of arithmetic progressions in sparse random sets
  Christoph Koch (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Max-Average Games with Random Payoffs
  Rahul Santhanam (Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Mallows permutations and stable marriage
  Alexander Holroyd

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Four-dimensional loop-erased random walk and uniform spanning tree
  Wei Wu (Department of Statistics, University of Warwick)

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Limiting directions for random walks in affine Weyl groups
  Arvind Ayyer (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Friday 1 June 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - High-density hard-core configurations on a triangular lattice
  Yuri Suhov (Penn State and Cambridge)

Monday 4 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Mermin-Wagner Theorem for vertex-reinforced jump process
  Roland Bauerschmidt (Statslab, University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Continuous-state branching process with dependent immigration
  Zenghu Li (Beijing Normal University)

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Limits of (randomly) growing Schröder trees and exchangeability
  Julian Gerstenberg (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Dynamics of limit order books: queueing models, diffusion limits and stochastic PDEs
  Rama Cont (University of Oxford)

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Where do second class particles walk?
  Márton Balázs (University of Bristol)

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Finding cliques using few probes
  Miklós Rácz (Princeton University)

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Branching Brownian motion with decay of mass and the non-local Fisher-KPP equation
  Julien Berestycki (University of Oxford)

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Algorithmic Pirogov-Sinai Theory
  Tyler Helmuth (University of Bristol)

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Polynomial mixing time for edge flips on quadrangulations
  Alessandra Caraceni (University of Bath)

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Metastable behaviour of the dilute Curie-Weiss model
  Martin Slowik (TU Berlin)

Monday 14 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Particle systems and systemic risk
  Ben Hambly (University of Oxford)

Monday 21 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Orderings of Gibbs random samples
  Yuri Yakubovich (St Petersburg State University)

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Infinitely ramified point measure and branching Lévy process
  Bastien Mallein (Paris 13)

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - U-statistics: some old and new results with applications to patterns in random strings and permutations
  Svante Janson (Uppsala University)

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Branching Brownian motion with selection and a free boundary problem
  Sarah Penington (University of Bath)

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The Wong-Zakai theorem for stochastic heat equation
  Yu Gu (Carnegie Mellon University)

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - A (2+1)-dimensional Anisotropic KPZ growth model with a smooth phase
  Sunil Chhita (Durham University)

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Universal vanishing corrections on the position of fronts in the Fisher-KPP class
  Éric Brunet (Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, ENS Paris)

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Anchored expansion in supercritical percolation on nonamenable graphs
  Jonathan Hermon (University of Cambridge)

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The critical window for random transposition random walk
  Dominic Yeo (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Multiple merger coalescents: truncated offspring distributions, large sample sizes, and bottlenecks
  Jonathan Chetwynd-Diggle (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Tales of Random Projections
  Kavita Ramanan (Brown University)

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Large deviations of subgraph counts for sparse random graphs
  Amir Dembo (Stanford University)

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Simultaneous migration in the seed bank coalescent
  Maite Wilke Berenguer (TU Berlin)

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Interacting reflected diffusions and their hydrodynamic limits
  Clayton Barnes (Université de Neuchâtel)

Monday 24 June 2019 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Near-critical percolation with heavy-tailed impurities
  Pierre Nolin (City University of Hong Kong)
• 14:00 - Generalized disconnection exponents for Brownian loop-soups
  Wei Qian (University of Cambridge)

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Hit and miss with the density of the (α,β)-superprocess
  Thomas Hughes (UBC)

Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Keep the particles -- CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Tom Kurtz (Madison-Wisconsin)

Monday 28 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Exceptional times of transience for a dynamical random walk
  Matthew Roberts (University of Bath)

Monday 4 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Asymptotics of discrete β-corners processes via discrete loop equations
  Alisa Knizel (Columbia University, New York)

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures: Models, properties and applications
  François Caron (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Order of the variance in the discrete Hammersley process
  Nicos Georgiou (University of Sussex)

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - The depth first search exploration of a supercritical configuration model
  Laurent Ménard (Université Paris Nanterre)

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Critical scaling limit of the random intersection graph -- POSTPONED TO NEXT TERM
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Lorenzo Federico (University of Warwick)
• 12:00 - Where are the faraway particles of the branching Brownian motion in dimension d?
  Roman Stasiński (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Critical scaling limit of the random intersection graph
  Lorenzo Federico (University of Warwick)

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limits of finitely specified permutation classes
  Mickaël Maazoun (ENS Lyon)

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Household epidemic models and McKean-Vlasov Poisson driven SDEs
  Raphaël Forien (INRA, Avignon)

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Random linear extensions of posets
  Igor Pak (UCLA)

Monday 1 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Large degrees yield short trees
  Serte Donderwinkel (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Hybrid zones and the effect of barriers
  Ian Letter (Department of Statistics)

Wednesday 26 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Random walk on the simple symmetric exclusion process
  Daniel Kious (University of Bath)

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Exchangeability, mixtures and continuum random trees
  Minmin Wang (University of Sussex)

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limits of multi-type Markov Branching Trees
  Robin Stephenson (University of Sheffield)

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Local and global behavior of the subcritical contact process
  Dr Leonardo Rolla (University of Warwick)

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Mixing times for the TASEP on the circle
  Note unusual time!
  Dominik Schmid (Bonn / Princeton)

Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Limit distributions of branching Markov chains
  Vadim Kaimanovich (Ottawa)

Monday 9 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Metastability for loss networks
  Sam Olesker-Taylor (University of Bath)

Monday 16 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - On the contact process in an evolving random environment
  Anja Sturm (University of Göttingen)

Monday 23 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Characterising the Gaussian free field
  Ellen Powell (Durham University)

Monday 30 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - A guide to growing random geometries: making trees blossom and triangulations flip
  Alessandra Caraceni (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Monday 6 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limit of a branching process in a varying environment
  Guillaume Conchon-Kerjan (University of Bath)

Monday 13 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Universality in random growth processes
  Sourav Sarkar (University of Cambridge)

Monday 20 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Dynamically resampling random trees
  Edward Crane (University of Bristol)

Monday 10 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Transitive closure in a polluted environment
  Brett Kolesnik (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Weaves, webs and flows
  Nic Freeman (University of Sheffield)

Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Convergence of genealogies through spinal decomposition
  Félix Foutel-Rodier (University of Oxford)

Monday 7 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limit of high-dimensional uniform spanning trees
  Eleanor Archer (Paris Nanterre)

Monday 14 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Heat kernel fluctuations for the three-dimensional uniform spanning tree
  Satomi Watanabe (Kyoto)

Monday 21 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Branching annihilating random walks with local self-regulations
  Alice Callegaro (Mainz)

Monday 28 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limit of an adaptive contact process
  Daniel Valesin (University of Warwick)

Monday 16 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Best response dynamics in random graphs
  Nikolaos Fountoulakis (University of Birmingham)

Monday 23 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Pattern Occurrence Counts in Random Planar Maps
  Michael Drmota (TU Wien)

Monday 30 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Sub-diffusive scaling regimes for one-dimensional Mott variable-range hopping
  David Croydon (RIMS, Kyoto University)

Monday 6 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The expected degree distribution in transient duplication divergence models
  Tiffany Lo (Uppsala University)

Monday 13 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - A SYSTEM OF INTERACTING BOUCHAUD TRAP MODELS
  Simone Floreani (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Disorder relevance and the continuum random field Ising model
  Adam Bowditch (University College Dublin)

Monday 27 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Non-commutative probability and fermionic stochastic quantisation
  Ajay Chandra (Imperial)

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Stochastic quantisation of the fractional \Phi^4_3 model in the full subcritical regime.
  Massimiliano Gubinelli (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - From the Pain in the Torus to a Repulsion-Diffusion Equation
  Peter Koepernik (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 10 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Counting graphic sequences
  Serte Donderwinkel (McGill University)

Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Branching random walk with non-local competition
  Sarah Penington (University of Bath)

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Metastability of the Potts ferromagnet on the random regular graph
  Andreas Galanis (University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science)

Wednesday 31 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Directed Spatial Permutations on Asymmetric Tori
  Tyler Helmuth (Durham University)

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - A new front in branching Brownian motion
  Yujin Kim (Courant Institute, NYU)

Monday 12 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The critical 2d stochastic heat flow
  Francesco Caravenna (Milano-Bicocca)

Monday 9 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Scaling limit of the minimal spanning trees on the PWIT.
  Omer Angel (UBC)

Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Weyl law in Liouville quantum gravity
  Nathanaël Berestycki (University of Vienna)

Monday 23 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Generalised convexity with respect to families of affine maps
  Oleksandr Marynych (National University of Kyiv)

Monday 30 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Modelling populations expanding in a spatial continuum
  Apolline Louvet (University of Bath)

Monday 13 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - A BRANCHING PARTICLE SYSTEM AS A MODEL OF PUSHED FRONTS
  Julie Tourniaire (IST Austria)

Monday 20 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Competing growth with reinforcement
  Daniel Ahlberg (Stockholm University)

Monday 27 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Selection principles for the N-BBM and the Fleming-Viot particle system
  Oliver Tough (University of Bath)

Monday 15 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Phase transition for the late points of random walk
  Perla Sousi (University of Cambridge)

Monday 22 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Top eigenvalues of random trees
  Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill)

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Coupling from the past for the null recurrent Markov Chain
  Sayeh Khaniha (INRIA, Paris)

Monday 5 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Recurrent extensions and Stochastic Differential equations
  Victor Rivero (CIMAT, Guanajuato)

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Interface evolution in bistable spatial population models: a global approach
  Thomas Hughes (Bath)

Monday 19 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Branching systems with noisy selection
  Emmanuel Schertzer (Vienna)

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - An Additive-Noise Approximation to Keller–Segel–Dean–Kawasaki Dynamics
  Adrian Martini (University of Oxford)

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Size-biased diffusion limits and the inclusion process
  Stefan Grosskinsky (Augsburg)

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - CLTs for Poisson Functionals via the Malliavin-Stein Method
  Tara Trauthwein (University of Oxford)

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Matthew Buckland (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Guillaume Conchon-Kerjan (King College London)

Monday 27 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Evan Sorensen

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - On the behavior of posterior probabilities with additional data: monotonicity and nonmonotonicity, asymptotic rates, log-concavity, and Turán’s inequality
  Yosi Rinott (The Hebrew University of jerusalem)

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Brett Kolesnik (University of Oxford)