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Oriented Percolation
Student-Run Discrete Math SeminarSpeaker: | David Sivakoff, UC Davis |
Location: | 1147 MSB |
Start time: | Tue, May 8 2007, 1:10PM |
Discrete time growth models arise naturally in physics and biology. I will introduce two simple discrete time growth models - the branching process and oriented percolation - and show that their survival probabilities become nonzero at nontrivial values of their growth parameters. The proofs that I will present require very little probability theory, and should be accessible to a wide audience.