Event Detail

Event Type: 
Probability Seminar
Date/Time: 
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 09:00
Location: 
Kidder 350
Event Link: 
http://www.math.oregonstate.edu/~kovchegy/Seminar/index.html

Speaker Info

Local Speaker: 
Yevgeniy Kovchegov
Abstract: 

We will show examples of computing mixing times via orthogonal polynomials diagonalization of reversible Markov chains, the Karlin-McGregor approach. Also, we will discuss matrix Riemann-Hilbert problems in the context of reversible Markov chains.