Tuesday, March 6, 2007 - 4:30pm
Speaker:
Jeff Kahn
Affiliation:
Mathematics, Rutgers University
Correlation inequalities --- e.g. the Harris, FKG and BK inequalities --- are basic tools in probability and have also had some beautiful combinatorial consequences. Here we will mention a few relatively recent inequalities, but mainly want to give some indication of how little we actually know about such things.
Refreshments at 4:00PM in Skiles 236
