Probability Seminar
Scope
The Probability Seminar is intended as a working seminar and its purpose is to be accessible to anyone with some probability background. The main talks are geared toward people who are not specialists in the area but it does not exclude more specialized topics.
Format
It is primarily organized by the Faculty of Mathematics of University of Bucharest and the Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow" of the Romanian Academy in hybrid format.
The seminar is on Wednesday 15:00-16:00 at FMI, room 12.
The google meet link is this: meet.google.com/zqf-wrka-cpq
Talks
Limit theorems for p-domain functionals of stationary Gaussian random fields
Speaker: Francesca Pistolato
(University of Luxembourg)
Nov 5, 2025, 15:00
PBT room 102 and online, FMI & IMAR
Computing the stochastic p-th root of a stochastic matrix using Riemannian manifold optimization
Speaker: Gabriel Majeri
(Univ. of Bucharest)
Oct 29, 2025, 15:00
PBT room 102 and online, FMI & IMAR
Bayesian Identification of Regime-Switching Asset Price Bubbles with Time-Varying Collapse Risk
Speaker: Petre Caraiani
(Institutul de Prognoză Economică al Academiei Române)
Oct 22, 2025, 15:00
PBT room 102 and online, FMI & IMAR
Political centrism and extremism
Speaker: Natasa Dragovic
(University of St. Thomas, USA)
Jun 10, 2025, 15:00
Online, FMI & IMAR
Science journalism and reporting II
Speaker: Andrada Fiscutean
(FJSC)
Apr 30, 2025, 15:00
FMI, room 102, FMI & IMAR
Science journalism and reporting I
Speaker: Andrada Fiscutean
(FJSC)
Apr 16, 2025, 15:00
FMI, room 102, FMI & IMAR
A bridge between Random Matrix Theory and Schramm-Loewner Evolutions
Speaker: Vlad Mărgărint
(University of North Carolina Charlotte)
Apr 15, 2025, 16:00
FMI, room 102, FMI & IMAR
Data processing and visualisations using Jupyter
Speaker: Adrian Manea
(UPB)
Apr 9, 2025, 15:00
FMI, room 102, FMI & IMAR
Convergence rates for the Adam optimizer
Speaker: Arnulf Jentzen
(CUHK-Shenzhen and Univ. Münster)
Apr 2, 2025, 15:00
FMI, room 214, FMI & IMAR
Stochastic Population Dynamics in Discrete Time
Speaker: Alexandru Hening
(Texas AM University)
Dec 13, 2024, 13:00
FMI, room 214, FMI & IMAR
How to interpret statistics
Speaker: Alexandra Andriciuc
(University of Bucharest)
Dec 4, 2024, 15:00
FMI, room 214, FMI & IMAR
Memorization and Optimization in Deep Neural Networks with Minimum Over-parameterization
Speaker: Simone Bombari
(ISTA)
Nov 27, 2024, 15:00
Online, on Google Meet, FMI & IMAR
Talagrand`s work on maximum of Gausian processes II
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(Univ. Bucharest/IMAR)
Nov 20, 2024, 15:00
FMI, room 214, FMI & IMAR
The maximum displacement and the volume of the critical Branching Random Walk
Speaker: Thomas Lehericy
(University of Zurich)
Nov 13, 2024, 15:00
Online, on Google Meet, FMI & IMAR
Talagrand`s work on maximum of Gausian processes
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(Univ. Bucharest/IMAR)
Nov 6, 2024, 15:00
FMI, room 214, FMI & IMAR
A few ideas on Talagrand`s work
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(Univ. Bucharest/IMAR)
Oct 30, 2024, 15:00
FMI, room 214, FMI & IMAR
Monte Carlo methods for PDEs and Neural Networks
Speaker: Arnulf Jentzen
(CUHK-Shenzhen and Univ. Münster)
Aug 19, 2024, 11:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Convergence and Non-Convergence Results for the ADAM optimizer
Speaker: Arnulf Jentzen
(CUHK-Shenzhen and Univ. Münster)
Aug 12, 2024, 11:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Convergence and non-convergence results for accelerated and adaptive stochastic gradient descent optimization methods
Speaker: Arnulf Jentzen
(CUHK-Shenzhen and Univ. Münster)
Jul 24, 2024, 11:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Stochastic gradient descent optimization methods with adaptive learning rates
Speaker: Arnulf Jentzen
(CUHK-Shenzhen and Univ. Münster)
Jul 19, 2024, 15:00
FMI, Sala 214, FMI & IMAR
Multiply connected Fatou components of rational maps
Speaker: Dan Paraschiv
(IMAR)
Mar 11, 2024, 10:00
Online: meet.google.com/zqf-wrka-cpq, IMAR, FMI & IMAR
Magics of the Rubik`s cube
Speaker: Martin Fronescu
(University of Bucharest)
Dec 18, 2023, 10:00
Online: meet.google.com/zqf-wrka-cpq, IMAR, FMI & IMAR
Analytical approximations with Strang Splitting
Speaker: Viorel Costeanu
(JP Morgan)
Dec 11, 2023, 15:30
Note the time change! Online: meet.google.com/zqf-wrka-cpq, FMI & IMAR
The fundamental theory of machine learning, the regression case II
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(University of Bucharest & IMAR)
Nov 20, 2023, 10:00
Online: meet.google.com/zqf-wrka-cpq, IMAR, FMI & IMAR
The fundamental theory of machine learning, the regression case
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(University of Bucharest & IMAR)
Nov 13, 2023, 10:00
Online: meet.google.com/zqf-wrka-cpq, IMAR, FMI & IMAR
Review of generative models from the mathematical and computer science perspective
Speaker: Maximilian Janisch
(University of Zürich)
Nov 6, 2023, 10:00
Online: meet.google.com/zqf-wrka-cpq, IMAR, FMI & IMAR
Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory: the Vapnik-Chervonenkis Theorem II
Speaker: Gabriel Majeri
(Univ. of Bucharest)
Oct 16, 2023, 10:00
Online: meet.google.com/zqf-wrka-cpq, IMAR, FMI & IMAR
Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory: the Vapnik-Chervonenkis Theorem
Speaker: Gabriel Majeri
(Univ. of Bucharest)
Oct 9, 2023, 10:00
Online: meet.google.com/zqf-wrka-cpq, IMAR, FMI & IMAR
Accelerated methods for optimization
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(IMAR)
Jun 12, 2023, 10:00
IMAR/online, FMI & IMAR
Entropic Regularization for General Linear Programs
Speaker: Max von Renesse
(Leipzig University)
May 24, 2023, 16:00
IMAR/online, FMI & IMAR
Problems with deep neural networks for image recognition
Speaker: Heinrich Matzinger
(Georgia Tech)
May 22, 2023, 11:00
IMAR/online, FMI & IMAR
FastICA
Speaker: Evgnosia Kelesidis
(FMI)
May 15, 2023, 10:00
IMAR/online, FMI & IMAR
About ICA and related conjectures
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(IMAR/FMI)
May 8, 2023, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
FastICA
Speaker: Evgnosia Kelesidis
(FMI)
Mar 27, 2023, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Bazele Cuantificării
Speaker: Răzvan Moraru
(IMAR)
Mar 27, 2023, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Language Models
Speaker: Rishabh Bhardwaj
(Singapore)
Mar 13, 2023, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
The Fundamental Theorems of Mathematical Finance III
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(FMI/IMAR)
Mar 6, 2023, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Tropical Geometry in Data Analysis and Machine Learning
Speaker: Andrei Comaneci
(Berlin)
Feb 27, 2023, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Tropical Geometry in Data Analysis and Machine Learning
Speaker: Andrei Comaneci
(Berlin)
Feb 27, 2023, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
The Fundamental Theorem of Mathematical Finance
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(FMI/IMAR)
Feb 13, 2023, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Operatorii Lévy. Dinamica stocastică și dinamica Cuantică III
Speaker: Răzvan Moraru
(IMAR)
Feb 6, 2023, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Operatorii Lévy. Dinamica stocastică și dinamica Cuantică II
Speaker: Razvan Moraru
(IMAR)
Jan 30, 2023, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Operatorii Lévy. Dinamica stocastică și dinamica Cuantică I
Speaker: Razvan Moraru
(IMAR)
Jan 16, 2023, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Ergodic Properties of Markov Processes III
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(IMAR/FMI)
Jan 9, 2023, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Ergodic properties of Markov processes II
Speaker: Alexandra Andriciuc
(IMAR)
Dec 19, 2022, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Ergodic Properties of Markov processes
Speaker: Alexandra Andriciuc
(IMAR)
Dec 12, 2022, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Randomized algorithm and its convergence to Schramm-Loewner evolution
Speaker: Jiaming Chen, ETH Zurich
Jul 11, 2022, 10:00
On-line, FMI & IMAR
The fundamental theorem of Machine learning III
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(FMI/IMAR)
Jun 6, 2022, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
The fundamental theorem of Machine learning II
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(FMI/IMAR)
May 30, 2022, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
The fundamental theorem of Machine learning
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(FMI/IMAR)
May 23, 2022, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Măsuri de risc
Speaker: Mihai Alin Neacşu
(FMI)
May 16, 2022, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
O mică introducere la lanţuri de ordin infinit
Speaker: Diana Conache
(TU München - Germany)
May 9, 2022, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
A small introduction to Markov chains and card mixing IV
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(FMI/IMAR)
May 2, 2022, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Markov chains and card shuffling III
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(IMAR/FMI)
Apr 18, 2022, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Markov chains and card shuffling II
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(IMAR/FMI)
Apr 11, 2022, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR
Markov chains and card shuffling I
Speaker: Ionel Popescu
(IMAR/FMI)
Apr 4, 2022, 10:00
Sala 804 "Ciprian Foias", FMI & IMAR