Basics of the Coupling Method

Series
Probability Working Seminar
Time
Friday, February 13, 2009 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 268
Speaker
Stas Minsker – School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
Organizer
Yuri Bakhtin
This term, the main topic for the Probability Working Seminar will be the coupling method, broadly understood. In the first talk, some basics on coupling will be discussed along with classical examples such as the ergodic theorem for Markov chains.