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Cover tours of graphs and a mathematical theory of drunkenness
Student-Run Research Seminar| Speaker: | Chris Tuffley, UC Davis |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Wed, Feb 9 2005, 12:10PM |
A problem involving $n$ people passing a keg around a circle will lead us to develope the keg index, a powerful mathematical theory of drunkenness that will give us new found predictive power and ultimately settle the existence or otherwise of sober-up pills. We'll then reflect more soberly on the problem, and see what it has to do with cover tours of graphs: random walks on the vertices of a graph that stop as soon as all the vertices have been visited.