The Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics welcomes Persi Diaconis to keynote the second annual Elizabeth S. Meckes Memorial Lecture on Friday, April 5, at 12:45 p.m.
Diaconis, a professor of statistics at Stanford University, will give a lecture on “The Mathematics of Solitaire” where he will explain how a “simple solitaire” can do the math, which surprisingly, has links to some of the deepest corners of modern probability—random matrix theory—and the work of Elizabeth Meckes.
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