Planar maps, random walks and circle packings

Planar maps, random walks and circle packings

Neyman Seminar
Jan 22, 2014, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Asaf Nachmias, University of British Columbia
The study of random walks on random and non-random planar maps is a topic lying in the intersection of probability, combinatorics and conformal geometry. It is central in contemporary two dimensional statistical physics due to deep conjectured connections between the random geometry of generic planar maps and the Euclidean geometry (the so-called KPZ correspondence). In this talk I will review...