Date |
Content |
References |
Associated files |
2月19日(周一) |
Course overview, fundamentals of Markov chains |
Course overview, Levin-Peres 1.1-1.5.3 |
Syllabus |
2月21日(周三) |
Fundamentals of Markov chains, cont.; classical models |
Levin-Peres 1.5.3-1.7, 2.1 |
Review slides |
2月26日(周一) |
Classical (and useful) models |
Levin-Peres 2.2-2.7 |
晟渤's slides on 2.2 |
3月4日(周一) |
Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Metropolis algorithm and Glauber dynamics; HW 1 due |
Levin-Peres 3.1-3.3.4 |
启恒's notes on Glauber dynamics |
3月6日(周三) |
Ising model; Intro to MC mixing |
Levin-Peres 3.3.5, 4.1-4.3 |
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3月11日(周一) |
Mixing, cont; Couplings |
Levin-Peres 4.4-4.6; 5.1 |
师赫's analysis proof of Prop. 4.7; 维豪's notes on 4.4 |
3月18日(周一) |
Couplings and harmonic functions; Couplings and mixing times |
Roch 4.1.1-4.1.2; Levin-Peres 5.2-5.3 |
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3月20日(周三) |
Couplings and mixing times, cont. |
Levin-Peres 5, cont. |
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3月25日(周一) |
Attend PKU Masterclass in Statistical Mechanics |
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4月1日(周一) |
Strong stationary times |
Levin-Peres 6.1-6.5.1 |
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4月3日(周三) |
Strong stationary times, cont; Lower bounds on mixing times; Majority vote model |
Levin-Peres 6.5.2-6.6, 7.1-7.2 |
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4月8日(周一) |
Lower bounds on mixing times, cont. |
Levin-Peres 7 |
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4月15日(周一) |
Variational characterization of eigenvalues; elements of spectral graph theory; perturbative results; HW 3 due |
Roch 5.1.1-5.1.3 |
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4月17日(周三) |
Community recovery in data science |
Roch 5.1.4; 5.2.1 |
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4月22日(周一) |
Spectral methods for MC mixing |
Roch 5.2 |
哲睿's notes on the spectral gap and mixing |
4月29日(周五) |
HW 4 due |
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4月29日(周一) |
劳动节,放假 |
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5月1日(周三) |
劳动节,放假 |
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5月6日(周一) |
Varopoulos-Carne and diameter-based lower bound |
Roch 5.2.3 |
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5月13日(周一) |
Adding a random edge to a biased cycle |
Gerencser 1-3.2 |
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5月15日(周三) |
Adding a random edge to a biased cycle |
Gerencser 3.2-4 |
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5月20日(周一) |
Adding a random edge to a biased cycle |
Gerencser 5-6 |
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5月27日(周一) |
Adding a random edge to a biased cycle |
Gerencser 7-8, Montenegro, Tetali Example 6.5 |
章颂's notes on Example 6.5 |
5月29日(周三) |
Random walks and electrical networks |
Lyon, Peres 2 |
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6月3日(周一) |
Random walks and electrical networks |
Lyon, Peres 2 |
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