Dynamics, aging and universality in complex systems: A celebration in honor of Gérard Ben Arous
- Start Date
- 2017-06-19
- End Date
- 2017-06-23
- Institution
- NYU
- City
- New York City, New York
- Country
- USA
- Meeting Type
- conference
- Homepage
- http://cims.nyu.edu/conferences/gba60/index.html
- Contact Name
- Ivan Corwin
- Created
- Modified
Description
The conference has 30 confirmed speakers in very active and fundamental areas at the intersection of probability, analysis, and mathematical physics. The main aim in the rigorous study of complex disordered systems is to understand how random microscopic systems display predictable and statistically universal collective macroscopic behaviors. Many such systems evolve to stationary states, but do so in very long time scales (e.g., exponential in system size). Dynamics and aging in these complex systems seeks to understand how their complicated energy landscapes governs their pre-stationary behavior. There are many different approaches in this area that will be represented at the conference, including spin-glasses, stochastic partial differential equations (PDEs), large deviation theory, and random matrix theory.
Many of the complex systems which will be discussed in this conference aim to describe real world phenomena and results proved for the mathematical models provide predictions applicable to the real systems. At a simpler level, think, for instance, of how the central limit theorem for sums of independent random variables predicts the Gaussian statistics which drives a large part of statistics in the real world. Besides physical applications, complex systems (e.g., spin glasses, growth processes and random matrices) have found many applications in computer science, machine learning, data science, bioinformatics, chemistry, and even areas like ecology and earth science.
The speakers are:
Erwin Bolthausen, Zurich
Anton Bovier, Bonn
Jiri Cerny, Vienna
Francis Comets, Paris
Percy Deift, NYU
Amir Dembo, Stanford
Jean-Dominique Deuschel, Berlin
Persi Diaconis, Stanford
Alexander Fribergh, Montréal
Martin Hairer, Warwick
Takashi Kumagai, Kyoto
Jean-François Le Gall, Orsay
Yves Le Jan, Orsay
Eyal Lubetzky, NYU
Terry Lyons, Oxford
Sylvie Méléard, Paris
Charles M. Newman, NYU
Stefano Olla, Paris
Houman Owhadi, Caltech
Sandrine Péché, Paris
Yuval Peres, Microsoft
Jeremy Quastel, Toronto
Scott Sheffield, MIT
Vladas Sidoravicius, NYU Shanghai
Alain-Sol Sznitman, ETHZ
S.R.Srinivasa Varadhan, NYU
Wendelin Werner, ETHZ
Horng-Tzer Yau, Harvard
Ofer Zeitouni, Courant-Weizmann
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