UW Combinatorics Talk

UW Combinatorics Seminar

Title: Random Walks and Hyperplane Arrangements

Persi Diaconis

Stanford

October 22, 1:30pm
SMI 205

ABSTRACT 

A collection of hyperplanes in Euclidian space divides space into chambers and faces. Bidigare, Hanlon, and Rockmore introduced natural random walks on the chambers. This includes classical examples (Tsetlin library card shuffling) and many new examples (territory exchange, walks on a-cyclic orientations). There is a fairly complete theory, but many questions remain. This is joint work with Christos Athanasiadis.


Speaker's Contact Info: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI


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Sara Billey, Combinatorics Seminar, Mathematics Department, University of Washington,

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