Browsing by Author "Geldhauser, Carina"
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Cutoff Phenomenon: Surprising Behaviour in Card Shuffling and other Markov Chains
[SNAP-2023-005-EN] Baraquin, Isabelle; Lafrenière, Nadia; Schuh, Katharina (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2023-12-21)This snapshot compares two techniques of shuffling a deck of cards, asking how long it will take to shuffle the cards until a “well-mixed deck” is obtained. Surprisingly, the number of shuffles can be very different for ... -
Randomness is Natural - an Introduction to Regularisation by Noise
[SNAP-2024-002-EN] Djurdjevac, Ana; Altman, Henri Elad; Rosati, Tommaso (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2024-05-22)Differential equations make predictions on the future state of a system given the present. In order to get a sensible prediction, sometimes it is necessary to include randomness in differential equations, taking microscopic ...