Department of Mathematics
Title : Large deviations with applications to random graphs
| Speaker: Professor S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan Affiliation: New York University/Courant Institute Time: 2:00 pm Thursday, 28 March, 2013 Location: PLT2 |
Abstract
| Although the theory of large deviations deals with events with small probabilities it is essentially a way of analyzing sums that have an exponentially large number of terms each summand being exponentially small (or large). You can use the theory to examine the number of graphs on a large number of vertices, with prescribed number of edges, triangles and/or other finite graphs as subgraphs. This is a joint Mathematics/Statistics colloquium. Raghu Varadhan is a mathematician/statistician who has made fundamental contributions to probability, including the theory of large deviations. Among his many honours, Prof. Varadhan has received the Abel Prize (2007) from the King of Norway, and the National Medal of Science (2010) from President Barack Obama. http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/varadhan/ |
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Programmes and Centres
- New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (NZIMA)
- Community for Understanding and Learning in the Mathematical Sciences (CULMS)
- Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS)
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Engineering Science
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute
