Symmetries and patterns in sandpiles
Probability Seminar
Feb 10, 2021, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Zoom (berkeley.zoom.us/j/95668607041) | Time Changed
Ahmed Bou-Rabee, Univeristy of Chicago
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The Abelian sandpile is a diffusion process on the integer lattice which produces striking, kaleidoscopic patterns. Why do these patterns appear? How robust are the patterns to noise? What happens in dimensions higher than two?
I will discuss recent progress towards answering these questions. There are connections to circle packings, stochastic homog...