Past Probability Seminars Spring 2020
Spring 2013
Thursdays in 901 Van Vleck Hall at 2:25 PM, unless otherwise noted. If you would like to receive announcements about upcoming seminars, please visit this page to sign up for the email list.
Thursday, September 13, Sebastien Roch, UW-Madison
Title: Markov models on trees: Variants of the reconstruction problem
Abstract: I will consider the so-called `reconstruction problem': how accurately can one guess the state at the root of a Markov chain on a finite tree, given the states at the leaves? I will introduce variants of this problem that arise naturally in connection with applications in molecular evolution, and discuss recent results and open problems. Based on joint works with Andoni, Daskalakis, Hassidim, Mossel and Sly.
Thursday, January 31, Bret Larget, UW-Madison
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Thursday, March 5, Janosch Ortmann, University of Toronto
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Thursday, March 14, Brian Rider, Temple University
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Thursday, March 21, Neil O'Connell, University of Warwick
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Thursday, April 11, Kevin Lin University of Arizona
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Thursday, April 25, Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, UC - Berkeley
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Wednesday, May 1, Bálint Vető, University of Bonn
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