Pattern formation, permutations and a traffic jam
Vladas Sidoravicius
(CWI)
Abstract: In the first part of my talk I will discuss several problems of contemporary Probability Theory, understanding of which led to beautiful theories and deep theorems, linking areas of stochastic growth and pattern formation, random matrices and combinatorics. In the second part I will show how combination of these methods led to the proof of long standing conjecture on sensitivity of macroscopic systems to localized (singular) microscopic perturbations.
Location: room 611 of the Wiskunde building (campus De Uithof) Budapestlaan 6, Utrecht.
Date and time: Thursday, September 17, 2009 15:30-16:30. The lecture is preceded by coffee, tea, and cookies from 15.00 to 15.30 hour in the same room.
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