Conference and Colloquium Talks
- Fifth European Congress of Mathematics, Amsterdam 2008 Markov operators, classical orthogonal polynomial ensembles, and random matrices
- The state of Geometry and Functional Analysis (in honor of Vitali Milman‘s 70th birthday, Tel Aviv 2009) Measure concentration, functional inequalities, and curvature of metric measure spaces
- Kinetic theory, optimal transport, probability, geometry: old and new (Conference in the honor of Cédric Villani, Fields medalist 2010), Paris 2011 The concentration of measure phenomenon
- Concentration inequalities and their applications, Luminy 2012 New challenges of measure concentration
- Colloquium at the Technion, Haifa 2012 Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities (Historical note: “More than fifteen proofs of the logarithmic Sobolev inequality”)
- Probability and Analysis (in honor of Stanislaw Kwapien‘s 70th birthday), Bedlevo 2012 Chaos of a Markov operator and the fourth moment condition
- Le Cam Lecture, Journées de la Société Française de Statistique, Bruxelles 2012 Concentration inequalities for eigenvalues of random matrices
- Poincaré Centennial Conference, Paris 2012 Poincaré inequalities in probability and geometric analysis
- International Congress of Mathematicians ICM, Seoul 2014 Heat flows, geometric and functional inequalities
- Schramm Lecture, 38th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Oxford 2015 Stein’s method, logarithmic Sobolev and transport inequalities
- UK Easter Probability Meeting 2016 “Random Structures Arising in Physics and Analysis”, Lancaster 2016 Concentration inequalities: basics and some new challenges
- 50th Anniversary meeting of the North British Functional Analysis Seminar, Edinburgh 2018 How does the heat equation explore geometric and functional inequalities?
- Optimal Transportation and Applications, Pisa 2018 On optimal matching of random samples