Scholarly Colloquia and Events

  • 9/18 Stat Colloquium, Haim Bar and Vladimir Pozdnyakov

     

    Professors Haim Bar and Vladimir Pozdnyakov

    Department of Statistics

    University of Connecticut

     

     

    High Dimensional Space Oddity

     

    In his 1996 paper, Talagrand highlighted that the Law of Large Numbers (LLN) for independent random variables can be viewed as a geometric property of multidimensional product spaces. This phenomenon is known as the concentration of measure. To illustrate this profound connection between geometry and probability theory, we consider a seemingly intractable geometric problem in multidimensional Euclidean space and solve it using standard probabilistic tools such as the LLN and the Central Limit Theorem (CLT). 

     

     

    DATE:  Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 4:00 PM, AUST 202

        

    WebEx:https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m641fad596399790597c902901219ec73

     

    Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326)   

    For more information, contact: Tracy Burke at tracy.burke@uconn.edu