Phase transitions and dynamics in random media

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.

Confirmed speakers

• Manuel Cabezas (Universidad Católica de Chile)

• Ahmed El Alaoui (Cornell)

• Reza Gheissari (Northwestern)

• Brice Huang (MIT)

• Aukosh Jagannath (Waterloo)

• Antal Jarai (University of Bath)

• Pax Kivimae (NYU)

• Justin Ko (Waterloo)

• Han Le (Michigan)

• Ben McKenna (Georgia Tech)

• Pierre François Rodriguez (Imperial College)