Friday, October 31, 2014 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: The Magnitude of Metric Spaces
Speaker: Mark Meckes (Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: How big is a geometric object? Of course, this question is ill-posed, with many possible answers. In this talk I'll discuss a notion of size, named "magnitude", introduced by Tom Leinster and Simon Willerton. As...
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Friday, October 17, 2014 (12:45-1:45 p.m. in Yost 335)
Title: On the equivalence of modes of convergence for log-concave distributions
Speaker: Elizabeth Meckes (Case Western Reserve University MAMS Department)
Abstract: There are many ways of quantifying convergence of probability distributions. I will begin the talk with a survey of notions of distance between probability measures and the...