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Random permutations and interval partitions

Seminar | November 4 | 3-4 p.m. | 330 Evans Hall

Speaker: Jim Pitman, Professor, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Statistics, Department of

This talk will present some recent progress and open problems about random
permutations associated with models for randomly partitioning an interval
into a countable collection of subintervals. One model of particular
interest is defined by cutting a unit interval at the times of vertices of
the concave majorant of a Brownian motion.

The talk will refer to two recent articles:

"The distribution of the maximal difference between Brownian bridge and
its concave majorant"
(with Fadoua Balabdaoui)
and

"Characterizations of exchangeable partitions and random discrete
distributions by deletion properties" (with Alexander Gnedin and Chris
Haulk)

Event Contact: 510-642-2781