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Probability and Dynamical Systems Seminar
Probability and Dynamical Systems Seminar
On Polya urn scheme and its generalizations
On Polya urn scheme and its generalizations
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Time
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Venue
A3-3-301
Online
Zoom 482 240 1589
(BIMSA)
Abstract
We shall start by introducing the classical Polya urn scheme. We then plan to discuss generalized urn schemes and their connections with a problem of stochastic selection. In particular, we shall discuss a beautiful Rubin's construction which greatly simplifies the mathematical analysis of corresponding models.
Speaker Intro
Khanin received his PhD from the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics in Moscow and continued working there as a Research Associate until 1994. Afterwards, he taught at Princeton University, at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, and at Heriot-Watt University before joining the faculty at the University of Toronto. Khanin was an invited speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics in Barcelona in 2000. He was a 2013 Simons Foundation Fellow. He held the Jean-Morlet Chair at the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques in 2017, and he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. In 2021 he was awarded The Humboldt Prize, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, in recognition of his lifetime's research achievements.