Wednesday April 18, 2018 4:00pm Yost 306
Speaker: Peter Veerman, Portland State University
Abstract: We investigate a class of models related to the Bak-Sneppen (BS) model, initially proposed to study evolution. The BS model is extremely simple and yet captures some forms of “complex behavior” such as punctuated equilibrium that is often...
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Friday April 13, 2018 3:15 p.m. Yost 306
Speaker: Sean O'Rourke, University of Colorado Boulder
Title: Critical Points of Random Polynomials
Abstract: Consider a polynomial p in one complex variable. The Gauss-Lucas theorem states that the critical points of p lie inside the convex hull of the zeros. But how are the...