Date/Time
Date(s) - 15/11/2023
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Location: BSB 104
For the ones who cannot make it in person, here is the zoom link: https://mcmaster.zoom.us/j/93715748114

Speaker: JE Paguyo

Title: The Mathematics of Card Shuffling

Abstract:  How many times should a deck of cards be shuffled so that it is thoroughly mixed? Which shuffling methods are the most effective? What does a deck typically look like after repeated shuffles? In this talk, we give a brief history of card shuffling, discuss real-world methods of shuffling cards, and survey some previous results. Along the way, we discover that these modest questions lead to connections with beautiful mathematics: Markov chains, random walks on groups and hyperplane arrangements, symmetric function theory, representation theory.

Coffee available 5pm in Hamilton Hall – 216 (Lounge)

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