April 3, Tuesday
12:00 – 13:00
Does god play dice? an airplane boarding/disk scheduling perspective
Computer Science seminar
Lecturer : Dr. Eitan Bachmat
Affiliation : CS, BGU
Location : 202/37
Host : Dr. Aryeh Kontorovich
Einstein didnt believe in quantum mechanics because
"God does not play dice".
We will show that one possible interpretation of Einstein's
own law, governing free fall in space-time, is that god plays
a considerable amount of dice.
We arrived at this line of inquiry through our study of
airplane boarding, which in turn started from a problem in
disk scheduling which is a part of "practical" systems
performance analysis, landing squarly in the realm of computer
science with or without software engineering.
We will try to survey the interconnections between all these topics.
No prior knowledge is required, experience with boarding
airplanes will be useful.