Dr. Yogeshwaran Dhandapani is delivering two lectures on Percolation Theory. The abstracts of the two talks are as follows: 1) Introduction to basic percolation model ; Existence of a non-trivial phase transition ; Sub-exponential decay in the sub-critical phase. 2) Uniqueness of the infinite cluster ; The critical probability is 1/2 in two dimensions The talks should be elementary in nature and should be accessible to people with reasonable background in Probability. The venue and timings are Lecture 1: ME 217, 11-12.30; 25th August 2011 (today) Lecture 2: ME 217, 2.30 - 4; 26th August 2011.
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