First Examples and Basic Setup

IMS Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series An Introduction to Intertwining via Strong Stationary Duality Lecture 1: First Examples and Basic Setup Persi Diaconis Stanford University, USA Markov chains, mixing times, various measures of mixing--total variation, separation and their relation. Shuffling cards--top to random, riffle shuffling and their analysis. The Diaconis-Chung-Graham process. Existence and first properties of Strong stationary times.