BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
          DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS CALENDAR
 
                        Week of September 15-19

Tuesday, September 16

11:30 ALGEBRA SEMINAR  - Room 447 MSC
      Steve McCleary, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "Antique totally ordered sets"     

 2:30 ANALYSIS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Alex Izzo, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
      "Gelfand theory"

Wednesday, September 17

 3:30 INVITED STATISTICS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Lev Klebanov, BGSU and St. Petersburg State University
                             for Architecture and Civil Engineering
      Model Construction in Statistical Estimation Theory

Thursday, September 18

 3:30 SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC

Friday, September 19

 3:30 Coffee
 3:45 COLLOQUIUM  - Room 459 MSC
      Gerard Letac, Toulouse, France
      "Random nested tetrahedra and products of stochastic matrices"
      Abstract: Choose three random points uniformly inside a triangle
        to get a new one, and iterate the process: you get a sequence
        of triangles which shrinks to one point, and also flatten to
        one line. What are the distributions of this point and line?
        These problems are typical of the study of random walks on the
        semigroup of stochastic matrices. We treat several explicit
        examples and give detailed proofs.


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