SEARCH Events Event Title: OR Speaker Last Name:    OR Year: (yyyy)

Mathematics Colloquium EVENT DETAIL Date:  Tuesday, November 02, 2010 Title:  Random growth and directed polymers Abstract:  About 30 years ago it was observed by physicists that a large class of one dimensional random systems (the KPZ universality class) have highly anomalous, but universal, fluctuation behaviour. We will describe some of the models, and survey recent progress in proving some of the conjectured scalings and limiting distributions. Speaker:  Jeremy Quastel Institution:  University of Toronto   Back to current Colloquium List Back to UM Math seminars page .