The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.

Random walks (whatever they are) have been used as models to understand all sorts of phenomena. More recently this has been enriched with the introduction of so-called "quantum walks." I will explain what this is all about and illustrate some of the surprising results one can explain with these tools by looking at the so-called Parrondo's paradox (you may want to Google this one). All students in the physical sciences, economics or people in the social sciences who are interested in quantitative reasoning are welcome to the course. Alberto Grunbaum has taught in Berkeley starting in 1974. Previously he has taught at New York University and Caltech. He is a regular visiting faculty in several places of Europe, China, and South America. Faculty web site: https://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/f-alberto-gruenbaum

Please note that this course is a 7-week class.
Classes will take place the first seven weeks of the semester, for two hours each week.

Requisites

• Students with 1-2 Terms in Attendance

Repeat Rules