Phase transitions and dynamics in random media
A one-week conference in probability theory
Topics at a glance
The central topics will be around stochastic processes in random environments. Classical examples are random walks in random environments and variations on this, such as self-interacting random walks, reinforced random walks, and dynamical environments. It will also consider problems built out the Gaussian free field and especially stochastic processes on Gaussian free fields: Markov processes such as random walks and related stochastic gradient processes, as well as percolation on properties. Finally, we will look at spin glasses and stochastic processes on spin models: Glauber dynamics on spin models, properties of the free energy landscape, properties of critical points and other complexity measures of these spin glass models.
The conference takes place in the Macdonald Engineering on McGill's downtown campus, rooms 279 and 280.