Previous Conferences & Workshops

Dec
07
2004

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Large Deviations for a Point Process of Bounded Variability
Eugene Speer
4:00pm|S-101

A (one-dimensional) translation invariant point process of bounded variability is one in which the variance of the number of particles in any interval is bounded, uniformly in the length of the interval. This represents a strong suppression of...

Dec
07
2004

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Variance/Entropy Decomposition Techniques for Proving Fast Mixing of the Glauber Dynamics
10:30am|S-101

The Glauber dynamics is a simple Markov chain algorithm for sampling from distributions that arise in models from statistical physics. In each step of this dynamics the value (or spin) of a random site is updated according to some rule which is...

Dec
06
2004

Members’ Seminar

Completing the Bernstein Program (A Geometric Conjecture within the Representation Theory of p-adic Groups)
4:00pm|S-101
Dec
06
2004

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Several Geometric Applications of Chernoff Estimates: A Zigzag Approximation for Balls and Some Random Matrices
Shiri Artstein
11:15am|S-101

I will present recent joint work with O. Friedland and V. Milman, where we use simple probabilistic estimates on Bernoulli random variables, together with tools from convex geometric analysis, to arrive at some new results. The first result has to...