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Probability and Combinatorics

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 4:30pm

Wenbo Li

University of Delaware

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 3C6

There is a long history on the study of zeros of random polynomials whose coefficients are independent, identically distributed, non-degenerate random variables. We will first provide an overview on zeros of random functions and then show exact and/or asymptotic bounds on probabilities that all zeros of a random polynomial are real under various distributions. The talk is accessible to undergraduate and graduate students in any areas of mathematics.