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:
- Karissa Huang (krhuang@berkeley.edu)
- Victor Ginsburg (victor@math.berkeley.edu)
- Vilas Winstein (vilas@berkeley.edu)
- or me.
Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 8 | Chris Yao | Exponential Anticorrelation of the Permanent - 2509.22577 |
| Oct 1 | Arnold Mong | Universality of the Brownian Net - 2401.09370 |
| Sep 24 | Zoe Macdonald | A contact process with stronger mutations - 2509.08112 |
| Sep 17 | Victor Ginsburg | Sharp thresholds for monotone functions - 2509.07246 |
| Sep 10 | Mriganka Basu Roy Chowdhury | Discrepancy in online settings - 2509.02432 |
| Sep 3 | Vilas Winstein | Tripodal structure in undersaturated random graphs - 2508.16797 |