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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 2:00pm

John Terilla

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 3c6

There´s a link between homotopy algebra and probability theory connecting morphisms of homotopy algebras and cumulants in probability theory. Jae-Suk talked about a similar topic when he was at Penn in the Fall, my talk will be different---it will have a deformation theory framework and some examples--- and I won't be assuming anything either. I´ll explain the link to cumulants, then explain how to expand this link to develop a homotopy theory of probability that allows derived mathematics to play a role in probability theory.