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.