Sydney Dynamics Group Seminar: Ian Melbourne, University of Warwick -- Sydney Dynamics group Seminar

Seminar : Sydney Dynamics group Seminar 
Day/time : Thursday, April 23 at 4:00 PM,
Location : SMRI seminar room (A12 Macleay Room 301) 
Speaker : Ian Melbourne, University of Warwick 

Title: Polya urns with dynamics 

Abstract: I'll describe some simple probabilistic Polya urns models which are governed,
via the ``stochastic approximation method'', by deterministic dynamical systems which
need not be simple, but which may nevertheless be tractable to some degree.  This leads
to interesting consequences for the underlying urn model.  (Work in progress with Yuri
Lima.)