Main Lecturers
The main courses will be given by:Fabrice Baudoin (Purdue) - "Sub-Riemannian diffusions on foliated manifolds".
Nathanael Berestycki (Cambridge) - "Gaussian free field and Liouville quantum gravity."
Michael Damron (GA Tech) - "Geodesics in first-passage percolation."
Amir Dembo (Stanford) - "Statistical physics on sparse random graphs: a mathematical perspective."
Yimin Xiao (Michigan State) - "Gaussian random Fields: geometric properties and extremes."
Ofer Zeitouni (Weizmann-NYU) - "Extremes of log-correlated fields"
Schedule
Week 1: All lectures to be held at Pancoe Auditorium except for Tuesday and Thursday 9am lecture at Tech LR4 .
| July 11th-15th | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:45 | Opening | ||||
| 9:00-10:20 | Damron | Damron* | Damron | Damron* | Damron |
| 10:40-12:00 | Xiao | Xiao | Xiao | Xiao | Xiao |
| 2:00-3:20 | Berestycki | Berestycki | Berestycki | Berestycki | Berestycki |
| 4:00-5:20 | Baudoin | Baudoin | Baudoin | Baudoin | |
| 5:30- | Reception (Lunt Hall) | Short Talks | Short Talks | Short Talks |
*: Tech-LR4
Week 2: All lectures to be held at Pancoe Auditorium except for Tuesday and the first lecture on Friday.
| July 18th-22nd | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00-10:20 | Dembo | Dembo* | Dembo | Dembo | Dembo☀ |
| 10:40-12:00 | Zeitouni | Zeitouni* | Zeitouni | Zeitouni | |
| 2:00-3:20 | Berestycki | Berestycki** | Baudoin | Berestycki | |
| 4:00-5:20 | Baudoin | Baudoin** | Baudoin | ||
| 5:30- | Short Talks | Short Talks | Reception (Lunt Hall) |
*: Searle 1-441
**: Tech L211
☀: Searle 1-421
Organizers
The scientific organizers are Antonio Auffinger and Elton Hsu.
Acknowledgements
This meeting is partially supported by a grant DMS-1542289 from the National Science Foundation to the probability group at Northwestern University and by the Department of Mathematics at Northwestern as part of the 2015/2016 emphasis year in probability theory.