The PageRank Algorithm

ACEMS

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The success of Google is widely attributed to its initial use of the PageRank Algorithm developed in the late 1990s by Stanford University PhD students Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page. Although its primary purpose was to rank web pages, the PageRank Algorithm can be used to rank nodes on any directed graph and, in particular, it can be applied to social networks of all kinds.In this talk, Peter shall discuss the mathematical ideas in the 1999 paper `The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web’ by Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd. This is the paper in which the authors first published the ideas that turned into the PageRank algorithm.This public lecture will be 45 minute presentation followed by Q &amp; A.NOTE - click this<a href="https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/88209696164?pwd=WElUTmNWaVFITjBGbXFCYnRxek9Odz09" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> link</a> to join the webinar on the day (Password: ACEMS@Home).

<h3>About Speaker</h3>Professor Peter Taylor received a BSc(Hons) and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Adelaide in 1980 and 1987 respectively. In between, he spent time working for the Australian Public Service in Canberra. After periods at the Universities of Western Australia and Adelaide, he moved at the beginning of 2002 to the University of Melbourne. In January 2003, he took up a position as the inaugural Professor of Operations Research. He was Head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics from 2005 until 2010.Peter’s research interests lie in the elds of stochastic modelling and applied probability, with particular emphasis on applications in telecommunications, biological modelling, economics, healthcare and disaster management. He is regularly invited to present plenary papers at international conferences. From 2002 to 2018, Peter was the Editor-in-Chief of Stochastic Models. He serves on the editorial board of Queueing Systems and, from the beginning of 2019, he will become the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Applied Probability and Advances in Applied Probability.From February 2006 to February 2008, Peter was Chair of the Australia and New Zealand Division of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM), and from September 2010 to September 2012 he was the President of the Australian Mathematical Society. In 2013 he was awarded a Laureate Fellowship by the Australian Research Council and he is currently Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS).

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