Seminars -- 2008-2009


DateSpeakerSubject
Sep 9Colin McDiarmid, OxfordRandom graphs from a minor-closed class
Sep 16Christina Goldschmidt, OxfordBehaviour near the extinction time in stable fragmentation processes
Sep 23Louigi Addario-Berry
Montréal
Branching Random Walks, killed at their critical slope
Sep 30Nicolas Broutin
INRIA Rocquencourt
The height of unlabelled binary trees.
Oct 7No seminar
Oct 14Gabor Lugosi
Pompeu Fabra
Randomized sequential prediction: performance bounds and algorithms
Oct 20,22,24Svante Janson
Random Graphs.
NOTE: non-standard date and location (see here)
Oct 28Ross Kang
McGill
The t-dependence and t-improper numbers of random graphs
Nov 4Pawel Pralat
Dalhousie
Cleaning regular graphs with brushes
Nov 11Lea Popovic
Concordia
Signaling in A Random Boolean Network
Nov 18No Seminar
Nov 25Ariel Gabizon
Simon Fraser University
A Recycling Paradigm for Extracting many Random Bits
Dec 2Eric Nguyen, Université de MontréalDiscrete-time Branching Random Walks and Biggins' Theorem
Feb 3Gérard Letac, Université de ToulouseLes matrices aléatoires de Wishart associées à un graphe triangulé
Feb 26Marie Albenque, Universite de BordeauxAsymptotic behavior of random stack-triangulations