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Rademacher Lectures

Thursday, October 14, 2004 - 10:30am

Lee Dicker

U. Penn

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRLB 4C8

A bi-infinite sequence of independent fair coin flips is messed up by a scoundrel who turns the bit at the origin into a zero. Can you fix this by shifting the whole sequence a random amount to the left or right? The answer is in a paper of T. Liggett (2000).