Lecture 4. Mykhaylo Shkolnikov: «Shuffling Cards»
Channel: Projekt MmF
Date: 2023-08-14

Consider the question of how many shuffles one needs to thoroughly shuffle a deck of cards. We will translate this question into a mathematics problem, and then solve it by introducing the concepts of Markov chains and mixing times. Time permitting, I will mention a few other situations (in computer science, physics, etc.) where these concepts play a key role.  

 Speaker

Mykhaylo Shkolnikov is an associate professor at Princeton University, where he applies the theory of stochastic partial differential equations to solve problems in financial mathematics, mathematical physics, and even neuroscience. Mykhaylo was born in Kharkiv, where he attended the Kharkiv Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 27 as well as the math circle «Evrika». Later, he moved to Germany with his family, and then to the United States to work on his PhD thesis at Stanford University.