Fall 2025

Welcome to the Berkeley Student Probability Seminar, Fall 2025 edition! We will be bringing back the arXiv seminar format, where each week one of us presents a recent arXiv paper in probability or related fields.

We take turns presenting, so please sign up (in the Fall 2025 tab). Google sheet for signing up)

Location and times: Evans 939, (almost) every Wednesday from 1 - 2 pm (please note the change in time and venue).

Please drop me (Mriganka) an email at mriganka_brc@berkeley.edu) if there are any issues here, or if I forgot to update this website. For general queries, you may contact any one of the organizers:

Sessions

Vilas Winstein Sep 3
Tripodal structure in undersaturated random graphs - 2508.16797
Mriganka Basu Roy Chowdhury Sep 10
Discrepancy in online settings - 2509.02432
Victor Ginsburg Sep 17
Sharp thresholds for monotone functions - 2509.07246
Zoe Macdonald Sep 24
A contact process with stronger mutations - 2509.08112
Arnold Mong Oct 1
Universality of the Brownian Net - 2401.09370
Chris Yao Oct 8
Exponential Anticorrelation of the Permanent - 2509.22577