Colloquium: “Cutoff with Window for the Random to Random Shuffle”

Friday April 27, 2018 3:15pm Yost 306   Speaker: Megan M. Bernstein, Georgia Institute of Technology Department of Mathematics Abstract: Cutoff is a remarkable property of many Markov chains in which they after number of steps abruptly transition in a smaller order window from an unmixed to a mixed distribution. Most random walks on the symmetric group, also known...

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MBI Online Mathematical Biology Seminar: “Modelling Collective Cell Motion in Biology”

Wednesday March 21, 2018 12:00 p.m.   Speaker: Philip Maini, Professor, Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford Title: Modelling Collective Cell Motion in Biology Abstract: Collective motion is ubiquitous in biology, occurring in normal development, wound healing, and pathological cases, such as cancer. Here, I will review work that we have done...

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