Honors Oral Exam

Last-Passage Percolation in Random Periodic Environments.

Xuchen (Bobby) Fang (University of Rochester)

Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Zoom Meeting ID: 986 2892 7517

Last passage time is of great interest in percolation theory. Kingman’s theorem guarantees the existence of the time constant. This time constant is hard to describe in infinite settings involving independent identically distributed random variables and full understanding remains a big open problem. On the other hand, some special properties arise in a random periodic environment and it is such an environment we are working with where we will investigate the time constants in more detail.

Event contact: jonathan dot pakianathan at rochester dot edu