Persi Diaconis at the IMT

[Odalric-Ambrym Maillard]

Prof. Persi Diaconis, Stanford University, will stay in Toulouse from January 8, 2014 to June 30 2014 at the Excellence Research Chair of the  CIMI program.

Do not miss this event!

CIMI Excellence Research Chair for Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)

Persi Diaconis’ scientific interests are extremely broad, from probability and statistics to group theory, algebra and combinatorics. The Excellence Chair will boost scientific activities and interactions within the different teams of IMT and IRIT, as well as with the other sciences, such as physics, chemistry, biology, economy…

The activities will be structured around:

see http://perso.math.univ-toulouse.fr/...

• One month invitation (between May and June) of a senior researcher, Jason Fulman (University of Southern California), who is in particular studying Markov chains via group representation theory.

• One month invitation (February) of a junior researcher Sergio Baccalado (Stanford University) ,who is using higher order Markov chains for the modeling of the chemistry kinetics.

• A one week pluridisciplinary conference on convergence to equilibrium of Markov chains, 24-28 March 2014. http://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/Ta...

• A mini-conference on orthogonal polynomials and hypergroups (one or two days in the second week of June).

• Persi Diaconis will give six lectures (one per month) on interactions of probability theory with other fields. They should be accessible to advanced undergraduates and graduate students and could be of interest for mathematicians, computer scientists and colleagues from other sciences.

http://perso.math.univ-toulouse.fr/...

• A bimonthly seminar/workshop open to the various possible fields of interactions.

• One mathematics vulgarization show based on magic in direction of a larger audience.

Odalric-Ambrym Maillard