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March 9, 2021

UTGD Seminar Schedule - Spring 2021

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February 4: Nathanael Berestycki

Introduction to mixing times and the cutoff phenomenon

How many times should you shuffle a deck of cards so that its distribution is approximately uniform? This question can be formalised through the notion of mixing time for a Markov chain. Elementary theory tells us that, given an irreducible and aperiodic Markov chain on a

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