Workshop Random Walks and Random Media

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May 01, 2012
Tuesday

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Directed random polymers and Macdonald processes
Ivan Corwin (Columbia University)

November 02, 2010 (02:00PM PDT - 03:00PM PDT)
Seminar "The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation: The free energy of the continuum random polymer."
October 26, 2010 (02:10PM PDT - 03:10PM PDT)
Seminar The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation: Deriving the Exact One-point Function Formula.
October 19, 2010 (02:10PM PDT - 03:10PM PDT)
Seminar The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation: A Weakly Asymmetric Exclusion Process Approximation.
September 13, 2010
Seminar Beyond the Gaussian Universality Class

September 13, 2010 - September 17, 2010

Workshop Random Matrix Theory and Its Applications I

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Sep 13, 2010
Monday

04:10 PM - 05:10 PM		Beyond the Gaussian Universality Class <b>(at UC Berkeley-60 Evans Hall)</b> Ivan Corwin (Columbia University)
Location -- Video -- Abstract The Gaussian central limit theorem says that for a wide class of stochastic systems, the bell curve (Gaussian distribution) describes the statistics for random fluctuations of important observables. In this talk I will look beyond this class of systems to a collection of probabilistic models which include random growth models, polymers, particle systems, PDEs and matrices, as well as certain asymptotic problems in combinatorics and representation theory. I will explain in what ways these different examples all fall into a single new universality class with a much richer mathematical structure than that of the Gaussian. The full scope and structure of this new universality class is just one of many important open questions being studied at MSRI this fall. Supplements -- Show Detail