- Series
- Mathematical Biology Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 255
- Speaker
- Yuri Bakhtin – Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Christine Heitsch
I will consider a class of mathematical models of decision
making. These models are based on dynamics in the neighborhood of
unstable equilibria and involve random perturbations due to small
noise. I will report results on the vanishing noise limit for these
systems, providing precise predictions about the statistics of
decision making times and sequences of unstable equilibria visited by
the process. Mathematically, the results are based on the analysis of
random Poincare maps in the neighborhood of each equilibrium point. I
will also discuss some experimental data.