Seminar - The Difference between Discrete and Continuous Harmonic Measures

Topic: 
The Difference between Discrete and Continuous Harmonic Measures
Date & Time: 
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 11:00 to 13:00
Speaker: 
Jianping Jiang, NYU Shanghai
Location: 
Room 264, Geography Building, 3663 Zhongshan Road North, Shanghai

The seminar is sponsored by NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU Shanghai.
 

Abstract:

In this talk, we introduce several random walk models on 2d lattices with lattice spacing h. A common property of these models is: as h goes to 0, the distribution of the point where the walk exits a simply connected domain (i.e., discrete harmonic measure) converges weakly to the exit distribution of Brownian motion in the same domain (i.e., continuous harmonic measure). We present a conjecture by Kennedy about the leading order term in the difference between these two harmonic measures. We give a proof of the conjecture for a random walk with steps uniformly distributed over a disk of h. This is a joint work with Tom Kennedy.

Biography:

Jianping Jiang is Global Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU Shanghai. He holds a PhD from University of Arizona. His research interests are probability theory and statistical physics.

Location & Details: 

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