Variance-sensitive concentration inequalities and applications to convexity

Series
Stochastics Seminar
Time
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Grigoris Paouris – Texas A&M – grigorios.paouris@gmail.comhttp://www.math.tamu.edu/~grigoris/
Organizer
Galyna Livshyts

Please Note: Please note the special time! This is Stochastic & Analysis seminars joint.

Motivated by the investigation on the dependence on ``epsilon" in the Dvoretzky's theorem, I will show some refinements of the classical concentration of measure for convex functions. Applications to convexity will be presented if time permits. The talk will be based on joint works with Peter Pivovarov and Petros Valettas.