New perspectives on Mallows permutations

Series
Stochastics Seminar
Time
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Omer Angel – University of British Columbia – angel@math.ubc.cahttps://www.math.ubc.ca/~angel/
Organizer
Michael Damron
I will discuss two projects concerning Mallows permutations, with Ander Holroyd, Tom Hutchcroft and Avi Levy. First, we relate the Mallows permutation to stable matchings, and percolation on bipartite graphs. Second, we study the scaling limit of the cycles in the Mallows permutation, and relate it to diffusions and continuous trees.