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Hamilton Jacobi equations on graphs and applications

We introduce a notion of gradient and an infimal-convolution operator that extend properties of solutions of Hamilton Jacobi equations to more general spaces, in particular to graphs. As a main applic...

Fluctuation results for Hastings-Levitov planar growth

In 1998 the physicists Hastings and Levitov introduced a family of continuum models to describe a range of physical phenomena of planar aggregation/diffusion. These consist of growing random clusters ...

Excited random walks in Markovian cookie environments on Z

We consider a nearest-neighbor random walk on Z whose probability ω(x, n) to jump to the right from site x depends not only on x but also on the number of prior visits n to x. The collection (ω(x, n...

Normal approximation for recovery of structured unknowns in high dimension: Steining the Steiner formula

Intrinsic volumes of convex sets are natural geometric quantities that also play important roles in applications. In particular, the discrete probability distribution L(VC) given by the sequence v{0},...

The winding number of planar Brownian motion

From an explicit formula for the joint density of the radial part and the winding number of a planar Brownian motion, we obtain asymptotic expansions (as t tends to infinity) for the density of the wi...

Diffusione e superdiffusione dell'energia in catene di oscillatori

In catene unidimensonali tipo FPU la conduttività termica e' infinita e ci si aspetta una superdiffusione dell'energia. In una catena di oscillatori armonici con collisioni stocastiche conservan...

Random walks on (hyperbolic) groups.

the first part of the talk will be an introduction to the general theory of random walks on groups with some classical results on entropy, rate of escape ... . For hyperbolic groups, these probabilist...

Random walk on the East model (and other environments with spectral gap)

The East model is a one-dimensional interacting particle system with non attractive spin-flip dynamics. In the physics literature, it is a key example of a model with glassy features. Here we take thi...

Modeling complex dependence using gluing and vine copulas

Bivariate dependence may be of such complexity that no single family of known parametric copulas is able to give an acceptable goodnes of fit. The gluing copula approach may be of good help in decompo...

1D and multi-d Burgers Turbulence as a model case for the Kolmogorov Theory

The Kolmogorov 1941 theory (K41) is, in a way, the starting point for all models of turbulence. In particular, K41 and corrections to it provide estimates of small-scale quantities such as increments ...

Large deviations of the empirical current in zero-range processes on a ring.

We examine atypical current fluctuations in totally asymmetric zero-range processes in one dimension with periodic boundary conditions. The zero-range processes is a stochastic lattice gas in which ea...

On the role of ultramodularity (and Schur concavity) in the construction of binary copulas

We discuss and stress the role of ultramodularity in special types of constructions of binary copulas. After recalling of some known ultamodularity-based results, we focus on a the so-called D-product...