North British Probability Seminar – Events
Seminars and Events for 25/26: (NBPS runs on Tuesday afternoons from 2.05 pm to 3 pm in the academic year 25/26)
Tuesday November 11, 2025
Pierre-François Rodriguez (Imperial College London)
Time: 2.05 – 3.00 pm
Location: JCMB 5323
Title:Percolation in intermediate dimensions
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Thursday November 20, 2025
Probability in the NorthEast (PINE) Workshop
Time: 2.00 – 6.05 pm
Location: Appleton Tower, Lecture Theatre 1
Website: https://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/PiNE/25-11-20/index.html
Tuesday November 25, 2025 [ONLINE]
Christophe Charlier (UCLouvain)
Time: 2.05 – 3.00 pm
Zoom Link: https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89436889769
Password: nbps2526
Title: Smallest gaps of the two-dimensional Coulomb gas
Abstract:
In the case of n independent and identically distributed random variables, the limiting distribution of the minimum (or maximum) as n becomes large is well known and falls into one of three categories: Weibull, Gumbel, or Fréchet. In contrast, for dependent random variables, the behavior of such extreme statistics is much less understood. In this talk, I will discuss the limiting distribution of the smallest distance between n repulsive random points in the plane, distributed as a Coulomb gas.
Tuesday December 9, 2025 [ONLINE]
Patrick Lopatto (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Time: 3.05 – 4.00 pm
Zoom Link: https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89436889769
Password: nbps2526
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Abstract:
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Tuesday December 9, 2025 [ONLINE]
Evgeni Dimitrov (University of Southern California)
Time: 4.05 – 5.00 pm
Zoom Link: https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89436889769
Password: nbps2526
Title:TBA
Abstract:
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Tuesday February 3, 2026
Ellen Powell (Durham University)
Time: 2.05 – 3.00 pm
Location: JCMB 5323
Title: TBA
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