Change of measure techniques are ubiquitous in many areas of applied probability including in model selection in finance and in efficient simulation of rare events.
This talk is based on "Simple channel coding bounds" by Wang et al, ISIT, 2009. New channel coding converse and achievability bounds are derived for a single use of an arbitrary channel.
Problems in Metric embedding involve mapping a set (for our purposes, finite) of points from one metric space to another, while preserving pairwise distances.
I will introduce a very simple social interaction model of information transmission, opinion formation and consensus formation by De Groot. We will study sufficient and necessary conditions to converge to a consensus in very simple networks.
What agents do depends not only on what they desire but also on what they believe and what they believe others will do. This makes it possible to influence agents by revealing or withholding information.
<p>Nikhil Bansal<br />
Eindhoven University of Technology<br />
Department of Maths. & Computing Science<br />
HG 9.01<br />
P.O. Box 513<br />
5600 MB Eindhoven<br />
The Netherlands</p>