Avi Wigderson, an award-winning computer scientist and mathematician, gave a lecture on “randomness” at Stony Brook ...

The course is concerned with behavior of random walks on certain infinite graphs which are currently in vigorous development. This is a topic of discrete probability and full of surprising and ...

The topics will be introduced on July 12th. The first meeting will take place on Friday, July 12th 2024 at 11:15 in M5. The lecture on probability theory which normally takes place at that time and ...

In 1929, a few years prior to his colleague Kolmogorov's Grundbegriffe, the leading Russian probabilist Khinchin published a paper in which he commented on the foundational ambitions of von Mises' ...

Goodness-of-fit tests based on parametric empirical processes have nonstandard limiting distributions when the null hypothesis is composite — that is, when parameters of the null model are estimated.