Date: Monday, March 18, 2013
Location: 3088 East Hall (4:00 PM to 5:00 PM)
Title: Statistical Mechanics and Enumerative Combinatorics
Abstract: Statistical mechanics and enumeration are fundamentally intertwined. In the first few minutes of the talk, I will allude to a number of different situations where statistical mechanical ideas have informed combinatorics/optimization, and discuss what statistical mechanics "is all about."
After that, I will consider the Ising model in detail. I will discuss the combinatorial formulation of the partition function for the 2D Ising model on the square lattice. Time permitting, I hope to completely solve this model.
Speaker: Chris Fraser
Institution: UM
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