Analysis and Probability Seminar- November 17, 2015

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Approximation of the Entries of a Random Orthogonal Matrix by Independent Standard Normals Speaker: Kathryn Lockwood (PhD Student in Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: The asymptotic distribution of the entries of matrices that are uniformly distributed on the orthogonal group has been...

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Special Analysis and Probability Seminar- November 12, 2015

Thursday, November 12, 2015 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 335) Title: Stability of some geometric inequalities and their application to the rate of convergence of Steiner, Minkowski and Blaschke symmetrization Speaker: Alex Segal (Tel Aviv University) Abstract: We will discuss the stability of the Brunn-Minkowski, Knesser-Suss and the isoperimetric inequalities and show (using a similar...

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