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Theory and applications of probability and stochastic processes: e.g. central limit theorems, large deviations, stochastic differential equations, models from statistical mechanics, queuing theory.

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Another colored balls puzzle

This is a puzzle a colleague asked me recently. Imagine you have $n$ balls in a bag that are colored from $1$ to $n$. At each turn you take two balls at random out that have different colors and col …
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Another colored balls puzzle (part II)

The same colleague as in Another colored balls puzzle asked me the following variant which she called "part II". Imagine you have $n$ balls in a bag that are colored from $1$ to $n$. At each turn yo …
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Probability $k$ bins are non-empty.

The following problem arises in the analysis of Bloom filters. Consider $m$ bins and $N=nk$ balls placed uniformly at random into the bins. A query chooses $k$ bins uniformly at random and asks if t …
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