Round I assignments and revised presentation schedule
Announcement · September 9, 2026
Round I assignments and revised presentation schedule
Round I begins Wednesday, September 23. The instructor-led bridge will continue through Monday, September 21.
The course calendar has been revised to reflect the current enrolment of eight students and the additional time needed for the instructor-led bridge. Each student will now give three presentations rather than four. Round I consists of eight presentations:
| Date | Student | Assigned topic |
|---|---|---|
| Wed. Sept. 23 | Rohan Mecheri | 02 — Random walk on a cycle and diffusive relaxation |
| Fri. Sept. 25 | Emiliano Zetune | 08 — Fourier analysis, Poincaré inequality, and influences on the Boolean cube |
| Mon. Sept. 28 | Yizhou Li | 06 — Gaussian Poincaré inequality via the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck semigroup |
| Wed. Sept. 30 | Justin Blanco | 01 — Sharp Poincaré inequalities and boundary conditions |
| Fri. Oct. 2 | Oliver Yao | 07 — Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and the Herbst argument |
| Mon. Oct. 5 | Sudais Arif | 04 — Cheeger inequality and bottlenecks on regular graphs |
| Wed. Oct. 7 | Sarah Yildirim | 03 — Tensorization of variance and the Efron–Stein inequality |
| Fri. Oct. 9 | Amber Zhang | 10 — Entropy, likelihood, and Gibbs equilibrium |
The complete revised calendar contains three eight-presentation rounds. Later-round dates remain provisional, and speaker order is rotated to distribute preparation time. If a conflict that was not covered by the original preference form prevents you from presenting on your assigned Round I date, contact the instructor as soon as possible.
See the revised course schedule for the complete calendar and the Course notes page for the quick-browse booklet, complete packet set, topic catalogue, and all individual packets.