Monday, November 12, 2018

Universality, probability, and the growth of rough surfaces

On Friday there was a nice UQ Maths and Physics Colloquium, Beyond the Gaussian Universality Class, given by Ivan Corwin,
The talk was a very nice example of synergy between fundamental physics and maths research.
There are interesting connections with simple one-dimensional models for surface growth, the Kardan-Parisi-Zhang equation, the KPZ universality class, traffic models, random matrix theory, directed polymers in random media, ....

No comments:

Post a Comment

What does this movie tell us about the modern university?

Last night, my wife and I watched the movie, Wit. You can watch the full movie here  (free with ads). I should warn that some of the conten...