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Probability and Combinatorics

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 3:30pm

Ahmed Bou-Rabee

NYU

Location

University of Pennsylvania

3C2

Yes, two speakers with the same last name speaking in the same seminar at the same time in different places

Homogenization is the approximation of a complex, “disordered” system by a simpler, “ordered” one. Picture a walker on a grid. In each step, the walker chooses to walk along a neighboring edge with equal probability. At large scales, the walker approximates Brownian motion. But what if some edges are more likely to be traversed than others?

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