Student Run
Reading Group on Markov Chains and Brownian Motion,
Spring 2013
Timings :
Wed 16.30 - 18.00 and occasionally on Fri 15.30 -
16.30
Place:
Ewing 336
Instructor :
Nayantara Bhatnagar (email: nayantara.bhatnagar @
gmail.com)
Site maintainer:
Weiqiang
Li (Ricky) (email: weiqiang@udel.edu)
Topics:
Schedule:
February 22 (Friday) 15:30 :
Weiqiang Li
(Ricky): Markov
chain basics (selected topics from Ch 1 of LPW)
February
27
(Wednesday) 16:30:
Peng Xu:
Markov chain examples (end of Ch 1 and Ch 2 of LPW)
March 1 (Friday) 15:30
:
Jiange Li:
Markov chain mixing (Ch 4 of
LPW)
March 8
(Friday):
Ke
Jin:
Markov
chain mixing (Ch 4 of LPW)
March 13 (Wednesday):
Yan
Song:
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (Ch 3 of LPW)
March 15 (Friday):
Weiqiang
Li:
Eigenvalues (Ch 12 of LPW)
March 22 (Friday):
Peng
Xu:
Eigenvalues
(Ch 12 of LPW)
April 3 (Wednesday):
Michael
DePersio:
Coupling (Ch 5 of LPW)
April
10
(Wednesday):
Michael
DePersio:
Coupling
(Ch 5 of LPW)
April
12 (Friday):
Jiange
Li:
Eigenfunctions and Comparison of Chains (Ch 13 of
LPW)
April
17 (Wednesday):
Ke
Jin:
Eigenfunctions
and Comparison of Chains (Ch 13 of LPW)
April 19
(Friday):
Yan
Song:
Continuous-Time Chains (Ch 20 of LPW)
April 26
(Friday):
Shi
Jin:
May 1
(Wednesday):
Peng Xu:
May 3
(Friday):
Jiange Li:
May 8
(Wednesday):
Ke
Jin: