Analysis and Probability Seminar-November 13, 2017

Monday, November 13, 2017 (3:45 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Truncations of Random Unitary Matrices Speaker: Kathryn Lockwood (PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics, Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: If U is a random n x n Haar distributed unitary matrix, it is well known that the eigenvalues of U are approximately...

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Analysis and Probability Seminar-November 6, 2017

Monday, November 6, 2017 (3:45 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Introduction to concentration inequalities, VII Speaker: Mark Meckes (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics, Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: We'll continue talking about methods for proving concentration inequalities, starting with Talagrand's convex distance inequality and moving on to analytic methods.

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