Billingsley Lectures on Probability: Nina Holden
3:30–5:00 pm Jones 303
We are pleased to have Prof. Nina Holden, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, as our honored speaker on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at 3:30 PM, Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue. A reception will immediately follow the lecture at 5:20 pm, in the Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics, 5727 South University Avenue.
Title: Scaling limits of random planar maps
Abstract: Planar maps are graphs embedded in the sphere such that no two edges cross, where we view two planar maps as equivalent if we can get one from the other via a continuous deformation of the sphere. In this talk we will present scaling limit results (i.e., convergence results) for random planar maps and we will focus in particular on a notion of convergence known as convergence under conformal embedding.