Colloquium-October 6, 2017

Friday, October 6, 2017 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Foundations of probability - failure of philosophy as a descriptive science Speaker:  Krzysztof Burdzy (Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Statistics, University of Washington at Seattle) Abstract: What is the probability of global warming? Specifically​, ​what is the probability that ​b​y 2100, the average U.S.temperature​...

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Analysis and Probability Seminar-September 25, 2017

Monday, September 25, 2017 (3:45 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Introduction to concentration inequalities, III Speaker: Mark Meckes (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics, Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: Measure concentration is an extremely useful phenomenon that appears in a wide variety of high-dimensional settings, and has become an indispensable tool...

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