Coalescence estimates for the corner growth model with exponential weights.

Speaker: Xiao Shen (University of Wisconsin Madison) Time: 03/04/2021, 2:00pm -2:50pm Zoom ID: 992 7853 8762 Abstract: We establish estimates for the coalescence time of semi-infinite directed geodesics in the planar corner growth model with i.i.d. exponential weights. There are four estimates: upper and lower bounds on the probabilities of both fast and slow coalescence on the correct spatial scale with exponent 3/2. […]

The BIG Math Network Industry Connection Series Office Hours

The BIG Math Network promotes careers in Business, Industry and Government to students and departments of the mathematical sciences, with support from five major societies: AMS, ASA, INFORMS, MAA, SIAM. We are pleased to announce free online events for students: BIG Math Network Industry Connection Series Interactive “office hours” with mathematical scientists working in industry.  […]

Sharing Profits in the Sharing Economy

Speaker: Gu Wang from WPI Time: 11/19/2020, 2:00 pm -2:50pm Zoom:  992 7853 8762 Abstract: A monopolist platform (the principal) shares profits with a population of affiliates (the agents), heterogeneous in skill, by offering them a common nonlinear contract contingent on individual output. The principal cannot discriminate across individual skill, but knows its distribution and aims […]