EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT

Title: Pinsky Lecture I: Basic Shuffling
Speaker: Professor Persi Diaconis
Speaker Info: Stanford Univeristy
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Abstract:

I will show that it takes seven ordinary riffle shuffles to adequately mix up 52 cards. The mathematics behind this is essentially symmetric function theory and leads to things like Hodge decompositions of Hochshield homology. A variant to type-B shuffles is used to break casino card shuffling machines.