Sto­cha­stics

Inn'formal Probability Seminar

This seminar is organized by Ulrik HansenEcaterina Sava-Huss and Alexander Glazman.

The idea is to discuss recent exciting research developments in the field of Probability (in a broad sense). Some talks are given by speakers invited from other universities but this is also a place for everybody in Innsbruck to share with each other their recent results - or just something cool that we have read. The seminar is very informal and there is always a lot of discussions during the talks (so they tend to last a little longer…).

Each talk will start by an introductory part (~30min), where the speakers will explain some basic concept in their research and the motivation behind.

Please write to Ulrik (ulrik.hansen@uibk.ac.at) if you want to be on the mailing list.

Speakers Summer term 2026

Time and place: Tuesdays 15:30-17:00, SR 7th floor (Technikerstrasse).  Sometimes, the probability seminar will be replaced by the monthly mathematical colloquium, which is dedicated to a broader audience. The colloquium takes place Wednesdays at 15:30.

DateSpeakerTopicLocation
April 29thLorca Heeney-Brockett (TU Wien)TBATBD
May 12th Michael Baake (University of Bielefeld)TBATBD
May 19th Pavel Zatitski (University of Cincinatti)TBATBD
May 26th Ian Ornelas (Federal University of Minas Gerais)TBATBD
June 9thLukas Lüchtrath (WIAS Berlin)TBATBD

Speakers Winter term 2025/2026

Time and place: Tuesdays 13:45-15:15, SR 7th floor (Technikerstrasse).  Sometimes, the probability seminar will be replaced by the monthly mathematical colloquium, which is dedicated to a broader audience. The colloquium takes place Wednesdays at 15:30.

DateSpeakerTopicLocation
October 29, 2025Sébastien Ott (EPFL)Some progresses on the roughening transition HSB 9 15.30
November 18, 2025Sébastien Martineau (Sorbonne University) Locality of supercritical percolation for graphs of polynomial growth SR 13 (Architecture building) 13:45
November 19, 2025Concetta Campailla (Sapienza University of Rome)The critical density of the Stochastic Sandpile modelHSB 9 15:30
December 10, 2025Mathias Beiglböck (University of Vienna)ColloquiumHS 10 15:30
January 9, 2026Alberto Chiarini (Padova), Philip Easo (ETH Zurich)Hard wall repulsion for the supercritical Gaussian free field in random environment, Cutsets and Percolation14:30 (HSB2) 16:00 (HSB2)
January 27, 2026Nicolas Forien ( Université Paris-Dauphine)Activated random walks: superadditivity property, and mysteries about monotonicitySR 7.OG 13:45

Past Talks

DateSpeakerTopic
May 14, 2025Ioan Manolescu (University College London)An invitation to FK percolation
May 13, 2025Antonio Lorenzin (University College London)An Algebraic Approach to Moralisation and Triangulation of Probabilistic Graphical Models
May 6, 2025Nicolas Bouchot (Université Paris-Dauphine)Confined random walk and tilted interlacements
April 1, 2025Alexander Drewitz (Universität zu Köln)(Near-)critical behavior of a strongly
March 18, 2025William Da Silva (Universität Wien)The scaling limit of the volume of loop-O(n) quadrangulations
January 21, 2025Joshua Erde  (TU Graz)The law of the circumference of sparse random graphs
January 16, 2025Christoforos Panagiotis (University of Bath)Quantitative sub-ballisticity of self-avoiding walk on the hexagonal lattice
January 7, 2025Ecaterina Sava-Huss (Universität Innsbruck) Randomness and beyond: shuffling cards, population models, and the art of sandpiles
December 3, 2024Lyuben Lichev (ISTA Klosterneuburg) Explosive appearance of cores and bootstraps percolation on lattices
May 28, 2024Lorenzo Taggi (La Sapienza University, Rome)Random walk loops, dimers, spins and the Bose gas
May 21, 2024Paul Dario (Université Paris Est Créteil)Phase transition for the XY model on a percolation cluster
April 9, 2024Hanna Oppelmayer (Universität Innsbruck)Random von Neumann algebras
March 19, 2024Antonio Lorenzin (Universität Innsbruck) Classical and quantum probability from a categorical perspective: the de Finetti theorem
March 5, 2024Alice Callegaro (TU München)Branching annihilating random walk

Speakers Winter Term 2023/2024

Speakers Summer Term 2023

Speakers Winter Term 2022/2023

DateSpeakerTopic
January 30, 2023Vivek Dewan (Grenoble Alpes University)From percolation to random metrics
January 23, 2023 Robin Kaiser (Universität Innsbruck)Locally Markov walks
January 16, 2023 Dario Stein (Radboud University Nijmegen)Introduction to Probabilistic Programming and Higher-Order Probability
January 9, 2023Franco Severo (ETH Zürich)Off-critical level sets of smooth Gaussian fields
December 5, 2022 Yuwen Wang (Universität Innsbruck)Heat kernel and Green's function on discrete spaces
November 28, 2022 Anders Karlsson (University of Geneva)A law of large numbers for noncommuting operations and its relevance for deep learning
November 14, 2022 Tobias Fritz (Universität Innsbruck)An invitation to categorical probability
November 7, 2022Wolfgang Woess (TU Graz)Boundary behaviour of branching Markov chains
October 17, 2022 Nico Heizmann (TU Chemnitz)Aggregation models with multiple sources on fractal graphs
October 10, 2022Markus Heydenreich (LMU München)Voronoi cells in random split trees
October 3, 2022 Kieran Ryan (Universität Wien)The double dimer model and Gaussian free field
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