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X-WR-CALNAME:Anuraag Kumar\, “Hitting Time Distributions of Random Walks 
 on Groups and Distance Transitive Graphs”
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DESCRIPTION:Extra comments:Talk can be livestreamed on zoom meeting ID 986 
 2892 7517 - send request to jonathan.pakianathan@rochester.eduat least 2 d
 ays before talk to guarantee this option. Video of the lecture will be mad
 e available after the talk also (not live).\n\nAbstract: We investigate th
 e hitting times of random walks on graphs\, where a hitting time is define
 d as the number of steps required for a random walker to move from one nod
 e to another. While much of the existing literature focuses on calculating
  or bounding expected hitting times\, this approach is insufficient\, as h
 itting time distributions often exhibit high variance. To address this gap
 \, we analyze both the full distributions and variances of hitting times. 
 Using general Markov chain techniques\, as well as Fourier and spectral me
 thods\, we derive formulas and recurrence relations for computing these di
 stributions.
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LOCATION:Hylan Building\, 102
SUMMARY:Anuraag Kumar\, “Hitting Time Distributions of Random Walks on Gr
 oups and Distance Transitive Graphs”
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.rochester.edu/event/anuraag-kumar-hitting-time
 -distributions-of-random-walks-on-groups-and-distance-transitive-graphs
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