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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
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
3月20日(周三) Couplings and mixing times, cont. Levin-Peres 5, cont.
3月25日(周一) Attend PKU Masterclass in Statistical Mechanics
4月1日(周一) Strong stationary times Levin-Peres 6.1-6.5.1
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
4月8日(周一) Lower bounds on mixing times, cont. Levin-Peres 7
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
4月17日(周三) Community recovery in data science Roch 5.1.4; 5.2.1
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
4月29日(周一) 劳动节,放假
5月1日(周三) 劳动节,放假
5月6日(周一) Varopoulos-Carne and diameter-based lower bound Roch 5.2.3
5月13日(周一) Adding a random edge to a biased cycle Gerencser 1-3.2
5月15日(周三) Adding a random edge to a biased cycle Gerencser 3.2-4
5月20日(周一) Adding a random edge to a biased cycle Gerencser 5-6
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
6月3日(周一) Random walks and electrical networks Lyon, Peres 2
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