##Statistics Seminar##\\ Department of Mathematical Sciences ^ **DATE:**|Thursday, October 4, 2018 | ^ **TIME:**|1:15pm -- 2:15pm | ^ **LOCATION:**|WH 100E | ^ **SPEAKER:**|Yinsong Chen, Binghamton University | ^ **TITLE:**|A Brief Introduction of Cutoff Phenomenon | \\ **Abstract** I will start with an example of top-to-random shuffle on n cards and introduce the concept of cutoff phenomenon, followed with more examples: Biased random walk on a line segment and Random walk on the hypercube. At last I will discuss separation cutoff with examples.