Series: Mathematics Colloquium

Date: Thursday, October 14, 2004

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Place: 122 Heritage Hall, HUB-Robeson Center

Host: Dmitri Burago

Refreshments: 3:30 - 4:00 PM, 122 Heritage Hall

Speaker: Anatoly Vershik (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)

Title: Universal Metric Space, Random Graph and Related Questions

Abstract:

  We will describe the classical results of Urysohn about the
  universal metric space, and Rado-Erdos-Renyi about the universal or
  random graph.  The definition of random metric spaces will be given,
  and it will be explained why with probability one the random metric
  space is universal.