Colloquium: Tuesday, December 20, 2022. Speaker: Yeor Hafouta (University of Maryland). Title: “Quantitative aspects of the central limit theorem”.

Our next Math colloquium talk will be in person next week on the 20th of December, in room 614, Science & Education building.

A zoom link for our meetings is:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83337601824

Speaker: Yeor Hafouta (University of Maryland)

Date: Tuesday, 20th of December, 2022

Time: 14:00

Title: Quantitative aspects of the central limit theorem.

Abstract: In the first part we will review some quantitative aspects of the classical CLT (aka Berry-Esseen theorems). We will also describe some applications (e.g. approximation of pi via Monte Carlo methods). 

In the second part we will discuss recent versions of the Berry-Esseen theorem in L^p, from a result of S. Bobkov (2018) for independent random variables to more recent results for “weakly dependent” random variables like Markov chains, products for random matrices and hyperbolic dynamical systems (all the processes will be described through explicit examples).

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