Applied Maths Seminar: Tzou -- Geodesic Levy Flight and the Foraging Hypothesis

Leo Tzou (The University of Melbourne) will be giving a talk on Tuesday 18th February at
11am in Carslaw 375.  Afterwards we will go to lunch.  

Title: Geodesic Levy Flight and the Foraging Hypothesis 

Abstract: The Levy Flight Foraging Hypothesis is a widely accepted dogma which asserts
that animals using search strategies allowing for long jumps, also known as Levy
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.