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Title: Some probability “paradoxes” to warm up your winter
Abstract: I will present 2-3 counterintuitive examples from elementary probability and Markov chains that I have learned about in the last few years. This includes joint work with Omer Angel (UBC Mathematics Department), Norbert Henze (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), and Peter Taylor (University of Melbourne).
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Zoom / ESB 4192
Speaker
Mark Holmes, UBC Mathematics Visiting Professor; Professor of Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
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