BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68b30b68a26cc DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210722T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210722T130000 URL:/combinatorics-and-optimization/events/algebraic-co mbinatorics-seminar-nadia-lafreniere SUMMARY:Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar - Nadia Lafrenière CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nTITLE: The spectrum of the random-to-below Markov chain\n\nSpeaker:\n Nadia Lafrenière\n\nAffiliation:\n Dartmouth College\ n\nZoom:\n Contact Stephen Melczer\n\nABSTRACT:\n\nThe random-to-below shu ffle of a deck of cards consists of removing\nany card randomly (with unif orm probability)\, and inserting it\nanywhere below (with uniform probabil ity). When looking at the\neigenvalues of its transition matrix\, they all seem to be rational and\npositive.\n DTSTAMP:20250830T143208Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR