Probability Seminar: Sarah Penington

  • Date: 09/18/2019
  • Time: 15:00
Lecturer(s):
Sarah Penington, U. Bath
Location: 

University of British Columbia

Topic: 

Branching Brownian motion with selection and a free boundary problem

Description: 

Consider a system of N particles moving according to Brownian motions and branching at rate one. Each time a particle branches, the particle in the system furthest from the origin is killed. It turns out that we can use results about a related partial differential equation known as a free boundary problem to control the long term behaviour of this particle system for large N. This is joint work with Julien Berestycki, Eric Brunet and James Nolen.

Other Information: 

Location:  ESB 1012