Dynamic accessibility percolation
Accessibility percolation is a simple model in evolutionary biology describing how a population driven by the evolutionary forces of selection and mutation explores a fitness landscape. Mathematically, the fitness landscape is modeled by attaching random weights to the vertices of a graph.
Then, accessible percolation asks whether there are paths of increasing fitness of a certain length. I will review some of the progress in this area and then consider the question what happens if the fitness landscape changes over time. In particular, I will focus on the case when the underlying graph is a regular tree. Depending on the ratio of depth to width of the tree, we will see different scaling regimes for the time it takes to see an increasing path. Some of the proofs rely on adapting techniques from the area of noise sensitivity for Boolean functions.
Date:
28 April 2025, 14:00
Venue:
Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details:
L4
Speaker:
Marcel Ortgiese (University of Bath)
Organising department:
Department of Statistics
Part of:
Probability seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Julien Berestycki
