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Chip-firing games, potential theory on graphs, and spanning trees April 26, 2012 (10:00 AM PDT - 11:00 AM PDT)
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Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium
Speaker(s) Matt Baker, UC Berkeley
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Using the interplay between chip-firing games and potential theory on graphs, we present an "efficient bijective" proof of Kirchhoff\'s matrix-tree theorem and a new algorithm for sampling random spanning trees which does not utilize random walks.
This is joint work with Farbod Shokrieh.

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