2021 Southeastern Probability Conference

Virtual Conference May 17-18, 2021 in honor of Elizabeth Meckes

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Organized by Rick Durrett, Jonathan Mattingly and Sayan Mukherjee

Picture was taken during the March 2013 BIRS conference on The interplay of convex geometry and Banach space theory held at the Banff Center.

A memorial article from the IMS Bulletin.

A picture from the 2008 Workshop for Women in Probability.

Speakers

Times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC - 4:00) Abstracts * Recordings of talks

• 11:15-12 Mark Meckes Eigenvalue is not a dirty word. Slides
• 12:15-12:45 Jon Keating Joint Moments of Characteristic Polynomials of Random Unitary Matrices Slides
• 1:45-2:15 Kavita Ramanan Tales of Random Projections of High-dimensional Measures Slides
• 2:30- 3:00 Sourav Chatterjee Gauge-string duality and Elizabeth Meckes’s infinitesimal Stein’s method Slides

• 11:15-11:45 Tai Melcher Improved log Sobolev coefficients for compact Lie groups Slides
• 12:00-12:30 Matt Kahle Limit theorems for Betti numbers of random simplicial complexes. Slides
• 1:30-2:00 Sayan Mukherjee A Measure-Theoretic Dvoretzky Theorem and Applications to Data Science Slides
• 2:15- 2:45 Remembrances and closing remarks

Talks will be given over zoom as a webinar.

Link to registration

Supported by NSF grant DMS 2011385.

Co-sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics