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This week's JC is the last one for the semester (Honors Students take note!) and features one of our newest professors, Dr. Joan Lind. As usual the talk is at 3:35 in HBB 102, with pizza in Aconda 113. Next semester the JC will be in the fabulous new colloquium room in Ayres Hall!!! Title: Random Walks Abstract: Suppose you decide to go for a walk, and each time you reach a corner, you randomly choose the direction to take for the next block. Your path will be an example of a simple random walk. In this talk, we will take a look at this and other random walks, and we will discuss Schramm-Loewner Evolution, an exciting new random process which is related to these random walks. There will be plenty of pictures and simulations along the way. Conrad Plaut Professor, Director of UT Math Honors Math Department Aconda Ct. 104 1534 Cumberland Ave. University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-0612 Office: Aconda Ct. 401A Phone: 865-974-4319 http://web.utk.edu/~cplaut