Geodesic Levy Flight and the Foraging Hypothesis
Speaker: Leo Tzou
Affiliation: University of Melbourne
Abstract
The Lévy Flight Foraging Hypothesis is a widely accepted dogma which asserts that animals using search strategies allowing for long jumps, also known as Lévy flights, have an evolutionary advantage over those animals using a foraging strategy based on continuous random walks modelled by Brownian motion. However, recent discoveries suggest that this popular belief may not be true in some geometric settings. In this talk we will explore some of the recent progress in this direction which combines Riemannian geometry with stochastic analysis to create a new set of properties for diffusion processes.
About Pure mathematics seminars
We present regular seminars on a range of pure mathematics interests. Students, staff and visitors to UQ are welcome to attend, and to suggest speakers and topics.
Seminars are usually held on Tuesdays from 2 to 3pm.
Talks comprise 45 minutes of speaking time plus five minutes for questions and discussion.
Information for speakers
Researchers in all pure mathematics fields attend our seminars, so please aim your presentation at a general mathematical audience.
Contact us
To volunteer to talk or to suggest a speaker, email Ole Warnaar or Yang Zhang.
Venue
Room: N201
