Colloquium in probability
Organisers: Nina Gantert (TUM), Noam Berger (TUM), Franz Merkl (LMU), Silke Rolles (TUM), Konstantinos Panagiotou (LMU), Sabine Jansen (LMU),
Upcoming talks
within the last year
28.10.2024 16:30 Guillaume Bellot: DLR equations for the superstable Bose gas
The usage of Gibbs point processes to model particle systems is a well established method. One writes the measured positions of N particles (restrained in a compact of finite volume V) to be random, and the distribution depends on the set interaction between the particles of interest. The goal is then to take the thermodynamic limit (N,V->+oo) and study the limit process to deduce properties of the original
physical system. In the case of bosonic systems, this procedure is not straightforword at all, especially when one adds interactions between the particles. We will present a construction of a thermodynamic limit for superstable interactions, with a DLR equation on the limit process. Although we dot not prove the existence of interlacements (which are indication of Bose-Einstein condensation) in infinite volume, the limit process is naturally a distribution over finite loops and interlacements.
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21.10.2024 16:30 Christoph Knochenhauer: Optimal adaptive control with separable drift uncertainty
We consider a problem of stochastic optimal control with separable drift uncertainty in strong formulation on a finite horizon. The drift coefficient of the state process is multiplicatively influenced by an unobservable random variable, while admissible controls are required to be adapted to the observation filtration. Choosing a control actively influences the state and information acquisition simultaneously and comes with a learning effect. The problem, initially non-Markovian, is embedded into a higher-dimensional Markovian, full information control problem with control-dependent filtration and noise. To that problem, we apply the stochastic Perron method to characterize the value function as the unique viscosity solution to the HJB equation, explicitly construct ε-optimal controls and show that the values of strong and weak formulations agree. Numerical illustrations show a significant difference between the adaptive control and the certainty equivalence control
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22.07.2024 16:30 Adrien Malacan: From microscopic dynamics to macroscopic patterns: Proof techniques for the TASEP through second class particles
In this talk, we will derive the main ideas to determine the hydrodynamical behaviour of the Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process (TASEP) on Z, based on a paper by P. Ferrari that leverages the microscopic properties of the process. Specifically, we will emphasize how the nearest neighbour property and total asymmetry play a crucial role in the proof.
Additionally, we will discuss the key role of second-class particles in this context, noting how these objects interestingly capture the macroscopic behaviour of the system.
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16.07.2024 16:30 Maximilian Fels: The BRW subject to a hard-wall constraint
We study the (binary) branching random walk when the heights of all
particles in the most recent generation are conditioned to be positive.
We obtain sharp asymptotics for the probability of this event and for
various statistics, conditional on its occurrence. In particular, we
identify the repulsion profile followed by the conditional field, and
derive limits in law for its maximum, minimum and associated additive
martingales.
These results show, among other things, that the laws of the conditional
and unconditional fields are mutually singular in the limit.
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15.07.2024 16:00 Alexander Drewitz: Branching Brownian motion, branching random walks, and the Fisher-KPP equation in spatially random environment
Branching Brownian motion, branching random walks, and the F-KPP equation have been the subject of intensive research during the last couple of decades. By means of Feynman-Kac and McKean formulas, the understanding of the maximal particles of the former two Markov processes is related to insights into the position of the front of the solution to the F-KPP equation.
We will discuss some recent result on extensions of the above models to spatially random branching rates and random nonlinearities. Interestingly, the introduction of such inhomogeneities leads to a richer and much more nuanced picture when compared to the homogeneous setting.
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15.07.2024 17:30 Matthias Löwe: Fluctuations in the dilute Curie-Weiss model
The dilute Curie-Weiss model is the Ising model on a (dense) Erdös-Rényi graph G(N,p). It was introduced by Bovier and Gayrard in 1990s. There the authors showed that on the level of laws of large numbers the magnetization as well as the free energy behave as they do in the usual Curie-Weiuss model (i.e. mean-field Ising model). We analyze CLTs for the these quantities and give several critical values for p at which these fluctuaions change. This is joint work with Zakhar Kabluchko and Kristina Schubert.
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08.07.2024 16:30 Peter Mörters: Metastability of the contact process on evolving scale-free networks
We study the contact process on scale-free inhomogeneous random graphs evolving
according to a stationary dynamics, where the neighbourhood of each vertex is updated
with a rate depending on its strength. We identify the full phase diagram of metastability
exponents in dependence on the tail exponent of the degree distribution and the rate of updating.
The talk is based on joint work with Emmanuel Jacob (Lyon) and Amitai Linker (Santiago de Chile).
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01.07.2024 16:30 Apolline Louvet: Modelling populations expanding in a spatial continuum
Understanding the emergence of genetic diversity patterns in expanding populations is of longstanding interest in population genetics. In this talk, I will introduce a model that can be used to gain some insight on the evolution of genetic diversity patterns at the front edge of an expanding population. This model, called the ∞-parent spatial Λ-Fleming Viot process (or ∞-parent SLFV), is characterized by an "event-based" reproduction dynamics that makes it possible to control local reproduction rates and to study populations living in unbounded regions. I will present what is currently known of the growth properties of this process, and what are the implications of these results in terms of genetic diversity at the front edge.
Based on a joint work with Amandine Véber (MAP5, Univ. Paris Cité) and Matt Roberts (Univ. Bath).
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24.06.2024 16:30 Partha Pratim Gosh: Extremal Process of Last Progeny Modified Branching Random Walks
In this work, we consider a modification of the usual Branching Random Walk (BRW), where the position of each particle at the last generation 𝑛 is modified by an i.i.d. copy of a random variable 𝑌, which may differ from the driving increment distribution. This model was introduced by Bandyopadhyay and Ghosh (2021) and they termed it as Last Progeny Modified Branching Random Walk (LPM-BRW). Depending on the asymptotic properties of the tail of 𝑌, we describe the asymptotic behaviour of the extremal process of this model as 𝑛 → ∞.
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17.06.2024 16:30 Timo Vilkas: The level of information is pivotal in Maker-Breaker games on trees
Maker-Breaker is a two player game performed on a graph, in which Breaker tries to cut off a special vertex (e.g. origin or root) by erasing edges while Maker tries to prevent that by fixing them. In this talk we consider the game to be played on supercritical Galton-Watson trees and determine the corresponding winning probabilities given different information regimes.
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11.06.2024 16:30 Christian Gromoll: A generalization of martingales
I'll introduce a certain generalization of a martingale with the following
property: at each time, the conditional expectation of a future value given
the past, is a weighted average of all the values comprising the past. We'll
assume only that more recent values are weighted no less than older values.
We'll discuss motivations and constructions, and conditions under which
martingale-like behaviors, such as maximal inequalities and convergence, are
present in an appropriate form.
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27.05.2024 16:30 Julius Hallmann: Asymptotic Analysis of Randomized Epidemic Processes
This talk is concerned with the following epidemic process: A set of nodes is partitioned into three states: susceptible, infectious, and recovered. We start with a single infectious node. Proceeding in rounds whose length is antiproportional to the population size, a fixed amount of nodes are drawn independently at random. If at least one of the selected nodes is infectious, every susceptible node in the sample becomes infected. Moreover, any infectious vertex recovers independently at a constant rate. If the expected amount of infections caused by single node is less than one, the epidemic dies out quickly and leaves almost the entire population untouched. If it is above one, either the infection dies out quickly or a large outbreak occurs, during which a non-vanishing fraction of the population is affected. Moreover, if enough nodes are infectious at the same time, the system’s behaviour is essentially deterministic.
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13.05.2024 16:30 Stein Andreas Bethuelsen: Mixing for Poisson representable processes and the contact process
In this talk I will present some new insights on so-called Poisson representable processes, a general class of {0,1}-valued processes recently introduced by Forsström, Gantert and Steif. Particularly, I will discuss a new characteristic of these in terms of certain mixing properties. As an application thereof, I will argue that the upper invariant measure of the contact process on Z^d is not Poisson representable, thereby answering a question raised in the above mentioned work. This relies on the upper invariant measure satisfying certain directional mixing properties, but not their spatial equivalent. Moreover, the general approach extends to other processes having similar properties, such as the plus phase of the Ising model on Z^2 in the phase transition regime.
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06.05.2024 16:30 Tai Melcher: Infinite-dimensional diffusions under a ``new'' Hormander condition
Establishing regularity of transition probabilities is a standard focus for solutions to stochastic differential equations (SDEs). For diffusions in finite-dimensional spaces, the Hormander ``bracket generating'' condition for an SDE is a standard geometric assumption that ensures smoothness of the solution. The Hormander condition also often induces a natural geometry on the space which is tied to the analysis of the diffusion.
The situation in infinite dimensions is more complicated and less understood. We'll consider a class of infinite dimensional spaces where we propose a different but equivalent analytic formulation of the Hormander condition. Under this assumption, we discuss the related geometry and establish some regularity properties of the associated diffusion.
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29.04.2024 16:30 Niklas Latz : Pathwise duality of interacting particle systems
In the study of Markov processes duality is an important tool used to prove various types of long-time behavior. There exist two approaches to Markov process duality: the algebraic one and the pathwise one. Using the well-known contact process as an example, this talk introduces the general idea of how to construct a pathwise duality for an interacting particle system. Afterwards, several different approaches how to construct pathwise dualities are presented. This is joint work with Jan M. Swart.
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05.02.2024 16:30 Dariusz Buraczewski: Kinetic type equations and branching random walks
For a time dependent family of probability measure $(\mu_t)_{t\he 0}$ we consider a kinetic-type evolution equation $\partial \mu_t/\partial t + \mu_t = Q \mu_t$,
where $Q$ is the smoothing transformation. During the talk we will present probabilistic representation of a solution of this equation in terms of continuous time branching
random walks. Moreover, assuming that $\mu_0$ belongs to the domain of attraction of a stable law, we describe asymptotic behaviour of $\mu_t$.
Literature:
[1] Bogus, B., Marynych, SPA 2020
[2] B., Kolesko, Meiners, EJP 2021
[3] B., Dyszewski, Marynych, SPA 2023
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29.01.2024 16:30 Dominic Schickentanz: Brownian Motion Under Constraints: Two Recent Results
In the first part of the talk, we condition a Brownian motion on
spending a total of at most $s > 0$ time units outside a bounded interval
and discuss the behavior of the resulting process in the context of
entropic repulsion. Moreover, we explicitly determine the exact asymptotic
behavior of the probability that a Brownian motion on $[0,T]$ spends
limited time outside a bounded interval, as $T \to \infty$. This is joint
work with Frank Aurzada (Darmstadt) and Martin Kolb (Paderborn).
In the second part, we condition a Brownian motion on having an atypically
small $L_2$-norm on a long time interval and identify the resulting
process as a well-known one. This is joint work with Frank Aurzada
(Darmstadt) and Mikhail Lifshits (St. Petersburg).
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22.01.2024 16:30 Florian Schweiger: Extrema of two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau fields
Ginzburg-Landau fields are a class of models from statistical mechanics that describe the behavior of interfaces. The so-called Helffer-Sjöstrand representation relates them to a random walk in a time-dependent random environment. In the talk I will introduce these objects and survey some of the known results. I will then describe joint work with Wei Wu and Ofer Zeitouni on the asymptotics of the maximum of the Ginzburg-Landau fields in two dimensions.
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15.01.2024 16:30 Jessica Lin: Generalized Front Propagation for Stochastic Spatial Models
In this talk, I will present a general framework which can be used to analyze the scaling limits of various stochastic spatial "population" models. Such models include ternary Branching Brownian motion subject to majority voting and several examples of interacting particle systems motivated by biology. The approach is based on moment duality and a PDE methodology introduced by Barles and Souganidis which can be used to study the asymptotic behaviour of rescaled reaction-diffusion equations. In the limit, the models exhibit phase separation which is governed by a global-in-time, generalized notion of mean-curvature flow. This talk is based on joint work in progress with Thomas Hughes (Bath).
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18.12.2023 16:30 Christian Hirsch: Simplicial percolation
This talk introduces face and cycle simplicial percolation as models for continuum percolation based on random simplicial complexes in Euclidean space. Face simplicial percolation is defined through infinite sequences of k-simplices sharing a (k-1)-dimensional face. In contrast, cycle simplicial percolation demands the existence of an infinite k-surface, thereby generalizing the lattice notion of plaquette percolation. We discuss the sharp phase transition for face simplicial percolation and derive several relationships between face simplicial percolation, cycle simplicial percolation, and classical vacant continuum percolation. We will also draw connections to a variety of topological models for percolation that have been proposed recently in the literature.
This talk is based on joint work with Daniel Valesin
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04.12.2023 16:30 Serguei Popov : Two-dimensional conditioned trajectories and (Brownian) random interlacements
In this talk, we will discuss two dimensional random interlacements, both in discrete and continuous setups. We also discuss some (surprising) properties of their "noodles", which are (two-dimensional) simple random walks conditioned on never hitting the origin in the discrete case and Brownian motions conditioned on never hitting the unit disk in the continuous case. Of particular interest will be the properties of so-called vacant sets.
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20.11.2023 16:30 Michael Hofstetter: Extreme values of non-Gaussian fields
In recent years there has been significant progress in the study of extreme values of log-correlated
Gaussian fields, thanks to the work of Bramson, Ding, Roy, Zeitouni and Biskup, Louidor. For instance, it has been shown that for the discrete Gaussian free field (DGFF) in d=2 and for log-correlated Gaussian fields the limiting law of the centred maximum is a randomly shifted Gumbel distribution.
In this talk I will present analogous results for non-Gaussian fields such as the sine-Gordon field and the \Phi^4 field in d = 2. The main tool is a coupling at all scales between the field of interest and the DGFF which emerges from the Polchinski renormalisation group approach as well as the Boue-Dupuis variational formula. The talk is based on joint works with Roland Bauerschmidt and Trishen Gunaratnam, Nikolay Barashkov.
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13.11.2023 16:30 Quirin Vogel: Habilitation on Random walks and their applications to the Bose gas and randomised algorithms.
In the course of my habilitation, I researched random walks and some of their applications to statistical physics and random access algorithms. In this talk, I will first give a brief overview of the different papers which constitute the habilitation. I will then talk about the recent work "Off-diagonal long-range order for the free bosonic loop soup" in greater detail. In this work, we give a new (probabilistic) proof for condensation of the free Bose gas, irrespective of boundary condition. The result is based on the Feynman-Kac formula, combined with large deviation estimates and previous results on random partitions. Joint work with Wolfgang König and Alexander Zass.
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