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== <font color="red">Friday</font>, October 5, Nicos Georgiou, University of Utah == | == <font color="red">Friday</font>, October 5, Nicos Georgiou, University of Utah == | ||
Title: | Title: Busemann functions and variational formula for last passage | ||
percolation. | |||
Abstract: | Abstract: Directed last passage percolation on the two dimensional lattice is | ||
exactly solvable when the weight distribution is i.i.d. exponential or | |||
geometric. The reason for that is the Burke property associated to a model | |||
with "boundaries". | |||
We investigate the solvable model further in order to generalize the idea | |||
of boundaries into the general setting, and we compute a variational | |||
formula for passage times for more general weights. The variatonal formula | |||
is given in terms of Busemann functions and all restrictive assumptions on | |||
the environment are to guarantee their existence. | |||
Joint work with T. Seppalainen, F. Rassoul-Agha and A. Yilmaz. | |||
== Thursday, October 11, No seminar == | == Thursday, October 11, No seminar == | ||
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Fall 2012
Thursdays in 901 Van Vleck Hall at 2:25 PM, unless otherwise noted. If you would like to receive announcements about upcoming seminars, please visit this page to sign up for the email list.
Thursday, September 13, Sebastien Roch, UW-Madison
Title: Markov models on trees: Variants of the reconstruction problem
Abstract: I will consider the so-called `reconstruction problem': how accurately can one guess the state at the root of a Markov chain on a finite tree, given the states at the leaves? I will introduce variants of this problem that arise naturally in connection with applications in molecular evolution, and discuss recent results and open problems. Based on joint works with Andoni, Daskalakis, Hassidim, Mossel and Sly.
Thursday, September 20, Jun Yin, UW-Madison
Title: Some new results on random matrices.
Abstract: In this talk, we will introduce some new results on random matrices, especially the necessary and sufficient conditions for universality at the edge and a new result on the circular law.
Friday, October 5, Nicos Georgiou, University of Utah
Title: Busemann functions and variational formula for last passage percolation.
Abstract: Directed last passage percolation on the two dimensional lattice is exactly solvable when the weight distribution is i.i.d. exponential or geometric. The reason for that is the Burke property associated to a model with "boundaries".
We investigate the solvable model further in order to generalize the idea of boundaries into the general setting, and we compute a variational formula for passage times for more general weights. The variatonal formula is given in terms of Busemann functions and all restrictive assumptions on the environment are to guarantee their existence.
Joint work with T. Seppalainen, F. Rassoul-Agha and A. Yilmaz.
Thursday, October 11, No seminar
because of the MIDWEST PROBABILITY COLLOQUIUM
Thursday, October 18, Jason Swanson, University of Central Florida
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Thursday, October 25, Mihai Stoiciu, Williams College
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Friday, November 2, Michael Damron, Princeton
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA