{"589117":{"#nid":"589117","#data":{"type":"news","title":" 1993 Stelson Lecture - Persi Diaconis","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www-stat.stanford.edu\/%7Ecgates\/PERSI\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPersi Diaconis\u003C\/a\u003E is a recipient of the 1982 MacArthur \u0026quot;Genius\u0026quot; Fellowship and also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a former professional magician who is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness and randomization, such as coin flipping and shuffling playing cards. He has been a Professor of Statistics at Stanford University, visited AT\u0026amp;T Bell Laboratories, and is currently the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics at Harvard.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe mathematics of mixing things up\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI will argue that it takes seven ordinary shuffles to mix up 52 cards. The argument gives Hodge decompositions for Hochshild decompositions. (Joint work with David Bayer).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Stelson Lecture on The mathematics of mixing things up by guest speaker Persi Diaconis"}],"uid":"34465","created_gmt":"2017-03-22 17:24:28","changed_gmt":"2017-04-07 13:40:58","author":"math-csg1b","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"1993-01-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"1993-01-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"589959":{"id":"589959","type":"image","title":"Persi Diaconis","body":null,"created":"1491572446","gmt_created":"2017-04-07 13:40:46","changed":"1491572446","gmt_changed":"2017-04-07 13:40:46","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224753","name":"persi-stelson.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/persi-stelson.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/persi-stelson.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5540,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/persi-stelson.jpg?itok=7EyhTdWQ"}}},"media_ids":["589959"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.math.gatech.edu\/news-events\/stelson","title":"\u2190 View Previous Stelson Lectures"}],"groups":[{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"173647","name":"_for_math_site_"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}