When:
Friday, November 22, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM CT
Where: Lunt Hall, 105, 2033 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Daniel Mallory
Group: Department of Mathematics: Graduate Student Seminar
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Title: How many times should you shuffle a deck of cards?
Abstract: Given a deck with n cards, how many times does one need to shuffle the deck for it to be sufficiently close to random? This of course will depend on what one means by "shuffle" and sufficiently random. We will make both of these notions mathematically precise, and prove a nice theorem of Diaconis and Shahshahani from the 1980s.
Note: The talk will start at 4:10 pm