Speaker: 

Professor Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 11:00am

Location: 

RH 306

Abstract: I'll talk about the recently discovered strong negative dependence properties of the symmetric exclusion process, a model of non-intersecting random walkers. The negative dependence theory gives a simple way to show central limit theorems for the bulk motion of particles. Our results are general enough to deal with non-equilibrium systems of particles with inhomogeneous hopping rates.