Zoom link:  https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99136657600

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Thresholds for increasing properties are a central concern in probabilistic combinatorics and elsewhere. (An increasing property, say F, is a superset-closed family of subsets of some [here finite] set X, and the "threshold question" for such an F asks, roughly, about how many random elements of X should one choose to make it likely that the resulting set lies in F?  For example:  about how many random edges from the complete graph on n vertices are typically required to produce a Hamiltonian cycle?) We will try to give some sense of this area and then focus on a few recent highlights.