Some upper and lower bounds on the variance of functions of independent random variables

Series
Probability Working Seminar
Time
Tuesday, January 13, 2026 - 3:30pm for 1.5 hours (actually 80 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Christian Houdré – Georgia Institute of Technology – houdre@math.gatech.eduhttps://houdre.math.gatech.edu
Organizer
Benjamin McKenna

Please Note: First of several talks.

I'll present various methods, some old, some new,  leading to estimates on the variance of $f(X_1, X_2, \dots, X_n)$ where  

$X_1, X_2, \dots, X_n$ are independent random variables.  These methods will be illustrated with various examples.