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Metastable behaviour of the dilute Curie-Weiss model
    
	Metastability is a phenomenon that occurs in the dynamics of a multi-stable non-linear system subject to noise.  It is characterized by the existence of multiple, well separated time scales.  The talk will be focus on the metastable behavior of the dilute Curie-Weiss model, that is a Ising spin system on a Erdos-Renyi random graph with $N$ vertices and retention probability $p \in (0,1)$. Each spin interacts with a external field, while the interaction among neighbouring spin variables is assumed to be of the same strength.  In particular, I will discuss bounds on the mean exit time from the metastable to the stable state and the spectral gap.
Date:
26 November 2018, 12:00
Venue:
  Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
  
Speaker:
  
    Martin Slowik (TU Berlin)
  
    
Organising department:
    Department of Statistics
    
Organisers:
    
        Christina Goldschmidt (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), 
    
        James Martin (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
    
    
Part of:
    Probability seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
    
Editors: 
      Christina Goldschmidt, 
    
      James Martin