Duke Probability Working Group - Spring 2012

Meetings are Mondays from 12 to 1 in Physics 119 or Physics 227.

Schedule:

January 23: no meeting.
January 30: no meeting.
February 6: David Sivakoff will discuss (mainly the first three sections of) On the scaling of the chemical distance in long-range percolation models by Biskup.
February 13: Marc Ryser will discuss the paper Triviality of the 2D stochastic Allen-Cahn equation by M. Hairer, M.D. Ryser, and H.Weber.
February 20: Rick Durrett will discuss the paper Spatial structure increases the waiting time for cancer by Erik A Martens, Rumen Kostadinov, Carlo C Maley and Oskar Hallatschek.
February 27: David Herzog will discuss the paper On ergodic two-armed bandits by Pierre Tarres and Pierre Vandekerkhove.
March 5: no meeting (Spring break).
March 12: Junchi Li will discuss the paper Mean field conditions for coalescing random walks by Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira.
March 19: no meeting
March 26: Shishi Luo will discuss her work on "Modeling conflicting selection at two scales."
April 2: Scott Schmidler will discuss the paper On the Impossibility of Reconstructing Ancestral Data and Phylogenies by Elchanan Mossel.
April 9: Masha Bessonov will discuss the paper On the stability of a population growth model with sexual reproduction on Z^2 by Hwa-Nien Chen.
April 16: Kevin McGoff will discuss the survey Fluctuations of observables in dynamical systems: from limit theorems to concentration inequalities by J.R. Chazottes. (For proofs of the relevant rigorous results, see Optimal concentration inequalities for dynamical systems by Chazottes and Gouezel.)
April 23:
April 30:

Possible papers to discuss:

t^{1/3} Superdiffusivity of Finite-Range Asymmetric Exclusion Processes on Z by Quastel and Valko
Weakly asymmetric exclusion and KPZ by Quastel (ICM 2010)
Modeling evolution in a spatial continuum by Barton, Etheridge, and Veber
The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and universality class by Ivan Corwin
Suppressing cascades of load in interdependent networks by Charles D. Brummitt, Raissa M. D’Souza, and E. A. Leicht