Baining Zhang

Baining Zhang

Sophomore at HKUST

The State of Probability at HKUST

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Just a post to provide some information. As one might have noticed, Prof. Bao has left HKUST to join HKU starting from this academic year. Fortunately, Prof. Nitzschner has joined us last year, so things are still (barely) functioning. Why ‘barely’?

At Prof. Nitzschner’s MATH5411 lecture today, he has mentioned that next term will not feature any advanced pure probability courses, such as Stochastic Processes and Advanced Probability Theory II. They may be offered in Fall next year, at HKUST or other universities in Hong Kong…

No idea what to do now.

Post Midterm Brights

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Third blog post within one week! By the way I love post-midterm UST. The campus is a lot more empty.

My First HK Probability Seminar

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Yesterday, I attended my first Hong Kong Probability Seminar. Gefei Cai, from Peking, spoke about the 3 point connectivity problem in 2D critical percolation.

Week 1, Year 2 Fall

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Going into Year 2, I am rather uncertain about my goals this year. On the one hand, I have already started working my way into the field of statistical mechanics and random geometry. Yet, I lack the necessary prerequisites to get into some of the more ‘pure’ fields. The biggest roadblock is certainly stochastic processes and stochastic calculus. Complex analysis is also necessary, but I feel like somehow I can intuit my way through this while checking some references.