Columbia Student Probability Seminar

Spring Semester 2026 Student Probability Seminar

Welcome to the Columbia Student Probability Seminar. We will focus on two main topics, Mixing time for shuffling cards and Stochastic vertex models, based on the following papers one, two, three, and four, five.

Time

Thursday, 5:00–6:00 PM (EST)

Location

Room

First talk

01/29/2026

Schedule of Talks Spring 2026

Date	Speaker	Content
01/29/2026	Jiyue Zeng	We will discuss random transposition shuffling.
02/05/2026	Jiahe Shen	We will present the paper "The Szemer\'edi-Trotter theorem over arbitrary field of characteristic zero".