Branching Brownian motion and the road-field model

Branching Brownian motion and the road-field model

Probability Seminar
May 13, 2020, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM | Zoom Meeting ID: 942-7975-2709 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Nicholas Cook, Stanford University
The Fisher-KPP equation was introduced in 1937 to model the spread of an advantageous gene through a spatially distributed population. Beginning with work of Bramson in 1978, remarkably precise information on the location of the traveling front has been obtained via a connection with branching Brownian motion. In this talk I will discuss a probabilistic view on the Road-Field Model: a...