The graduate forum in probability is a weekly discussion for graduate students interested to hear some probability. The setup is informal, to favor questions and discussions. The students are welcome to suggest concepts and problems in probability they might be interested in.
To subscribe to the list for announcements: email Khalid Shafiq.
Spring 2021
Thursdays 4pm-5pm: https://baruch.zoom.us/j/94278813287 (Password: 782174)
- February 4: Get together to schedule and organize the semester
- February 11: Finalize reading material/textbooks.
- February 18: Hewitt-Sawage 0-1 law (with Elena Kosygina)
- February 25: (No events scheduled at this time)
- March 4: (No events scheduled at this time)
- March 11: Markov Chains and Random walks (Part 1) (with Shirshendu Chatterjee)
- March 18: Markov Chains and Random walks (Part 2) (with Shirshendu Chatterjee)
- March 25: No Meeting (Spring break)
- April 8: (No Meeting)
- April 15: Overview of Brownian motion (with Jay Rosen)
- April 22:
- April 29:
- May 6:
- May 13:
Fall 2020
- October 5: Going from Real Analysis to Probability (with L-P Arguin)
- October 12: No meeting (Columbus day)
- October 19: What is a branching process? (with Elena Kosygina)
- October 26: Notions of convergence in probability (with Shirshendu Chatterjee)
- November 2: Central Limit Theorem and Concentration of Measure (with Jack Hanson)
- November 9 at 2:00pm: Simple Random Walks (with Jay Rosen)
- November 16: Brownian motion (with L-P Arguin)
- November 23: From random walks to branching processes and back (with E. Kosygina)
- November 30: No meeting
- December 7: Brownian motion II (with J. Hanson)
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