Renormalization Group Methods for Polymer and Last Passage Percolation Models (12rit174)
Organizers
Tom Alberts (California Institute of Technology)
Yuri Bakhtin (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Eric Cator (TU Delft)
Konstantin Khanin (University of Toronto)
Description
The Banff International Research Station will host the "Renormalization Group Methods for Polymer and Last Passage Percolation Models" workshop from July 22nd to July 29th, 2012.
The research in teams program "Renormalization Group Methods for Polymer and Last Passage Percolation Models" will be an attempt to understand and classify the universal statistical behaviour occurring in important models of statistical mechanics. The program will bring together researchers from four different universities to study what has already been done in the renormalization group context, and then determine what future results can be expected. The universal statistics derived from this work are expected to have eventual applications in fields as diverse as chemistry, biology, physics, and materials science.
The Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS) is a collaborative Canada-US-Mexico venture that provides an environment for creative interaction as well as the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and methods within the Mathematical Sciences, with related disciplines and with industry. The research station is located at The Banff Centre in Alberta and is supported by Canada's Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Alberta's Advanced Education and Technology, and Mexico's Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT).
