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Random partitions, ramified coverings of a torus and applications
Probability| Speaker: | Andrei Okounkov, UC Berkeley |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Tue, Oct 19 1999, 4:10PM |
Description
I shall discuss some exact and asymptotic results about
the uniform measure on partitions of given size and their
applications to enumeration of ramified coverings of a
torus and, if time permits, some applications to ergodic theory.