Markus J. Pflaum (CU Boulder) Recapitulation of Hilbert spaces and their uses in QM and QFT
Jan. 22, 2020 4pm (MATH 350)
Grad Student Seminar
Andrew Campbell (CU Boulder)
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In 1898 Ladislaus Bortkiewicz showed that the number of Prussian soldiers killed accidentally by horse kicks in a year follows a Poisson distribution. Since then the Poisson distribution and Poisson point processes have found numerous applications in engineering, physics, finance, biology, ecology, etc. We will ignore almost all of these and instead look at the Poisson process in random geometric graphs and random linear operators.
On the number of Prussian soldiers killed each year by horse kicks