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<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Dear All,</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">    Amin Saberi (Stanford) will give a talk at 18:00 on Monday, April 30 at TB 130, Bogazici university (please note the unusual time).</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Title: Random Spanning Trees, Electrical Networks, and Strongly Rayleigh Measures</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Abstract: While probability theory, like much of mathematics has its roots in physics, the level of abstraction often makes the problems less accessible except to a handful of experts.<span> </span><br style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">This lecture starts with establishing relations between elementary electric network theory, random walks, and random spanning trees and build on that to present exciting concepts in complex geometry especially the geometry of roots of polynomials and their applications in algorithm design.<span> </span><br style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">  The talk will be accesible to undergraduates as well.</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Best,<br style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Mohan</p>

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