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Spring 2013 Seminar Series

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
OPERATIONS RESEARCH CENTER
SPRING 2013 SEMINAR SERIES

DATE: April 25th
LOCATION: E51-315
TIME: 4:15pm
Reception immediately following

SPEAKER:
Erol Peköz

TITLE
Reverse Engineering the Preferential Attachment Random Graph Process

ABSTRACT
I will discuss a probabilistic approach to finding and proving asymptotic distributions for complex processes using distributional fixed point equations and couplings. The approach will be applied to "reverse engineer" new rules for the preferential attachment random graph process that lead to different asymptotic degree distributions. Additional bonus material and other surprises will be included.