Graduate Student Colloquium
Alex Furman
UIC
On some topics in probability theory after Oded Schramm
Abstract: This is a graduate student colloquium on some topics in probability,
as a tribute to an extraodinary mathematician, widely considered
as the most influential probabilist, Oded Schramm. Oded has
tragically died in a climbing accident on Labor Day.
In the talk I will (briefly) discuss some topics in random processes in the plane,
such as random walks and Brownian motion, percolation, loop erased random walks,
and hope to indicate Oded's contribution to proving important conjectures
in this field via so called Schramm-Lowner Evolution.
Friday September 5, 2008 at 3:00 PM in SEO 636