Student Probability Seminar

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Homogenization with critical disorder

Speaker: Ahmed Bou-Rabee, CIMS

Location: Warren Weaver Hall 1314

Date: Monday, May 5, 2025, 11 a.m.

Synopsis:

Homogenization is the approximation of a complex, “disordered” system by a simpler, “ordered” one. Picture a walker on a grid. In each step, the walker chooses to walk along a neighboring edge with equal probability. At large scales, the walker approximates Brownian motion. But what if some edges are more likely to be traversed than others?