Learning seminar on Probability & related topics

This learning seminar is organized by students to learn, teach, and discuss with each other topics related to current research streams in probability and related fields. To participate or give a talk please send an e-mail to Mustazee Rahman (mustazee [dot] rahman [at] utoronto).

We are currently scheduled to meet Tuesdays from 11-1 in BA6183.

Talks

• Jordan Bell - May 10, 2011
 Topic: KAM theory

• Dominic Dotterrer - June 7, 2011
  Topic: Expander Graphs

• Brandon Hanson - June 14, 2011
  Topic : The polynomial method

• Mustazee Rahman - June 21, 2011
  Topic: Pagerank algorithm (by popular demand); Power laws and the preferential attachment model

• Mustazee Rahman - July 5, 2011
  Topic: Gundy's martingale decomposition and Burkholder's inequality

• Dominic Dotterrer - July 12, 2011
  Topic: Chernoff bounds and Talagrand's inequality

• Brandon Hanson - July 19, 2011
  Topic: Furstenberg multiple recurrence theorem and Van der Warden's theorem


Topics of interest

• Spectral graph theory
• Discrete Fourier analysis
• Various models of random graphs
• Erdos-Renyi random graphs (mostly review)
• Random graphs with a fixed degree distribution
• Small worlds
• Preferential attachment model and power law degree distributions