MATH Seminar
| Title: Negative Correlation Inequalities |
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| Colloquium: N16 |
| Speaker: Mike Neiman of Rutgers University |
| Contact: Dwight Duffus, dwight@mathcs.emory.edu |
| Date: 2009-02-11 at 3:00PM |
| Venue: MSC W303 |
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| Abstract: Correlation inequalities are statements about how events in a probability space positively or negatively reinforce each other. After briefly discussing the better-understood theory of positive correlation, I will talk about some negative correlation inequalities and their relationship to celebrated conjectures of J. Mason about log-concavity properties of certain sequences arising from combinatorial objects. Along the way, I'll mention several interesting open problems. |
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