19th Northeast Probability Seminar

The 19th Northeast Probability Seminar was held on November 19-20 2020. The meeting was held remotely through Zoom.

Thursday, November 19
Time	Name	University	Title
1:00-1:15	Emma Bailey	Bristol / CUNY	$L$-functions and Characteristic Polynomials: moments, branching, log-correlation
1:15-1:30	Michel Pain	NYU	Fluctuations of the critical Gibbs measure of branching Brownian motion
1:30-1:45	Jiacheng Zhang	Princeton	Local equations for continuous Gibbs measures on regular trees
1:45-2:00	Christopher Shriver	UCLA	Free Energy, Gibbs Measures, and Glauber Dynamics for the Ising Model on Trees
2:00-2:15	gather.town break
2:15-2:30	Carsten Chong	Columbia	Asymptotic behavior of the stochastic heat equation with Lévy noise
2:30-2:45	Graeme Baker	Princeton	Zero kinetic undercooling limit in the supercooled Stefan problem
2:45-3:00	Scander Mustapha	Princeton	Trend to equilibrium for granular media equation under non-convex potential
3:00-3:15	Danny Nam	Princeton	Critical One-dimensional Multi-particle DLA
3:15-3:30	gather.town break
3:30-3:45	Mark Rychnovsky	Columbia	GUE corners process in boundary-weighted six vertex models
3:45-4:00	Sayan Das	Columbia	Law of Iterated Logarithms for the KPZ equation.
4:00-4:15	Yier Lin	Columbia	Short time large deviations of the KPZ equation
4:15-4:30	Benjamin Landon	MIT	KPZ-type fluctuation bounds for interacting diffusions in equilibrium
4:30-5:00	gather.town reception

Friday, November 20
Time	Name	University	Title
1:00-1:15	Guillaume Remy	Columbia	Integrability of boundary Liouville CFT
1:15-1:30	Marianna Russkikh	MIT	Dimers and embeddings
1:30-1:45	Ian Alevy	U Rochester	The Limit Shape of the Leaky Abelian Sandpile Model
1:45-2:00	Lingfu Zhang	Princeton	Anderson-Bernoulli localization near the edge on the 3D lattice
2:00-2:15	gather.town break
2:15-2:30	Shuangping Li	Princeton	Learning Sparse Graphons and the Generalized Kesten-Stigum Threshold
2:30-2:45	Fan Yang	U Penn	Canonical correlation coefficients of high-dimensional random vectors with finite rank correlations
2:45-3:00	Benjamin McKenna	NYU	Random Determinants and Landscape Complexity Beyond Invariance
3:00-3:15	Ilias Zadik	NYU	The Landscape of the Planted Clique Problem: Dense subgraphs and the Overlap Gap Property
3:15-3:30	gather.town break
3:30-3:45	Liangbing Luo	U Conn	Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities on Non-isotropic Heisenberg Groups
3:45-4:00	Gianmarco Vega-Molino	U Conn	Heat Kernel Approach to Index Theorems
4:00-4:15	Jeremiah Birrell	U Mass	Interpolating Between f-Divergences and Wasserstein Metrics
4:15-4:30	Milad Bakhshizadeh	Columbia	harp Concentration Results for Heavy-Tailed Distributions