Mahler Lecture Tour 2018

Event: Public Lecture
Date & Time: Wednesday 7 November; 17:00–18:00
Venue: Evan Williams Theatre, Peter Hall Building, Univ. Melbourne
Speaker: Ivan Corwin (Columbia Univ., USA)

Hosted by the School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne.

Title: Beyond the Gaussian universality class

Abstract

The Gaussian distribution describes fluctuations arising in many systems across mathematics, science and society. However, complex random systems such as those related to interface growth, big data, stochastic optimization, traffic/queuing flow, and stochastic PDEs often do not follow fall into this universality class. This talk will explain how these and other important types of real world systems fall into a different universality class — the so called Kardar–Parisi–Zhang class.

The talk is aimed at a very general audience and will feature almost no equations and lots of interesting phenomena, videos and examples.

Biography

Corwin received his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute in 2011 and has since held positions at Microsoft Research, MIT, Institute Henri Poincaré, and now Columbia. He was a Clay Research Fellow and is presently a Packard Fellow, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He was the recipient of the Alexanderson Award, Rollo Davidson Prize, Young Scientist Prize of the IUPAP, and gave an invited lecture at the 2014 ICM.

Contact

Michael Wheeler (wheelerm@unimelb.edu.au)

supported by AMSI.