Probability and Stochastic Analysis Seminar  RSS

Yinon Spinka 21/04/2021, 17:00 — 18:00 — Online
, University of British Columbia

A tale of two balloons

From each point of a Poisson point process start growing a balloon at rate 1. When two balloons touch, they pop and disappear. Will balloons reach the origin infinitely often or not? We answer this question for various underlying spaces. En route we find a new(ish) 0-1 law, and generalize bounds on independent sets that are factors of IID on trees. Joint work with Omer Angel and Gourab Ray.

Note that we are now a joint probability seminar with IMPA. See here: https://sbp.impa.br

 

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Except for a few of the oldest sessions these are from the Seminário de Probabilidade e Mecânica Estatística at IMPA which is co-sponsored by several institutions, in particular Instituto Superior Técnico.