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Date4:00 PM
Location
Sequoia 200
Speaker
Jun Yin (UCLA)
Date4:00 PM
Location
Sequoia 200
Speaker
Persi Diaconis (Stanford Math and Statistics)
I'll introduce the Burnside process: a family of finite state-space Markov chains that have proved surprisingly effective to simulate things such as contingency tables with fixed row and column sums, partitions of n (when n is 10^8) or more general objects (trees, graphs) defined up to symmetry…