{"id":22423,"date":"2026-01-12T14:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/?p=22423"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:56:16","slug":"selected-topics-around-concentration-of-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/12\/selected-topics-around-concentration-of-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected topics around concentration of measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22426\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22426\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/12\/selected-topics-around-concentration-of-measure\/patricia-rb-2026\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22426 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Patricia-RB-2026-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Patricia R.-B. during her closing talk\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Patricia-RB-2026-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Patricia-RB-2026.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia R.-B. during her closing talk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I gave recently a 2x1.5h mini-course entitled <em>Selected topics around the concentration of measure<\/em>, during the <a href=\"https:\/\/learnstat-talag.sciencesconf.org\/\">Journ\u00e9es de Statistique Math\u00e9matique 2026<\/a>, January 7-9 2026, in Orsay. The rough lecture notes are here (without drawings and bibliography) : <a href=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/docs\/minicourse-orsay-talagrand-2026.pdf\">PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave recently a 2x1.5h mini-course entitled Selected topics around the concentration of measure, during the Journ&eacute;es de Statistique Math&eacute;matique 2026, January 7-9 2026, in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/12\/selected-topics-around-concentration-of-measure\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Selected topics around concentration of measure<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":117},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22423"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22437,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22423\/revisions\/22437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}