# Seminars at SMU Delhi

## Forthcoming Seminar(s)

April 3, 2017, 3:30 PM at Seminar Room 2
Speaker: Rabeya Basu, IISER Pune
Title: Unification of Classical Groups
Abstract of Talk
In this talk we shall discuss problems for classical groups originated in attempt to prove J-P. Serre's problem on projective modules, which states that finitely generated projective modules over a polynomial ring over a field are free.
April 5, 2017, 3:30 PM at Seminar Room 2
Speaker: Rahul Roy, ISI Delhi
Title: Howard's law for binary and related random trees
Abstract of Talk

The Horton-Strahler order of vertices of a rooted binary tree is given iteratively as follows: \begin{itemize} \item[a)] the order of an end-vertex of a leaf is 1, \item[b)] the order $i$ of a vertex $v$ is given by the orders $j$ and $k$ of the two neighbouring vertices in the two sub-branches of $v$, viz., $$i = \begin{cases} \max\{j,k\} & \text{if } j \neq k\\ j + 1 & \text{if } j=k. \end{cases}$$ \end{itemize} Let $N_i$ be the number of vertices of order $i$. For a uniformly chosen random binary tree on $n$ vertices among the class of all such binary trees, Shreve (1966) observed empirically that the ratio $\frac{N_i}{N_{i+1}}$ (suitably interpreted) converges to $4$ as $n \to \infty$. This convergence to a constant is known as Horton's law.

We discuss known results for the critical branching process tree (Burd, Waymire and Winn 2000) and present some conjectures for the random tree obtained from the space-time graphical representation of a system of $1$-dimensional coalescing simple symmetric random walks.

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