Prague Phase Transitions
Summer School
A three-week Graduate Course on various topics in Mathematical Statistical Physics will be held in Prague, for the third time. Each lecturer will present a series of 2--3 talks, on Mathematics and Physics of Phase Transitions, accessible for graduate, post-doc, as well as advanced undergraduate students.
The lectures will take place at the Center for Theoretical Study and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University. In addition to 2 two-hour lectures each day, talks and seminars by post-docs and students are planned. Some additional informal activities in Prague and its surroundings will be organized in the remaining time.
Each lecturer is going to present a minicourse consisting of up to 3 talks (a talk is be default something between 3/2-2 hours).
The tentative program:
August 30 -- September 3
Thierry Bodineau Wullf L_1 theory
Raphael Cerf Geometric measure theory and the proof of the Wulff isoperimetric theorem
Lincoln Chayes Random clusters
Remco van der Hofstad Application of the lace expansion to self-avoiding walks and oriented percolation
Frank den Hollander Metastability in canonical ensembles
Senya Shlosman Weakly Gibbsian states
Gordon Slade Statistical mechanics and super-Brownian motion
September 6--10
Thierry Bodineau Wullf L_1 theory
Anton Bovier Fluctuations and extremes in disordered systems
Lincoln Chayes Random clusters
Enzo Olivieri Restricted complete analyticity, finite size conditions and renormalization group maps
André Verbeure On Bose condensation
Roberto Schonman Percolation on graphs
Bálint Tóth Hyperbolic conservation laws (An introduction through concrete examples)
September 13--17
Wolfgang Koenig Self-attracting path models and parabolic Anderson model
Jacek Miekisz Statistical mechanics of evolutionary games
Enzo Olivieri Restricted complete analyticity, finite size conditions and renormalization group maps
Charles Pfister Selected topics in thermodynamical probability theory
Roberto Schonman Percolation on graphs
Unfortunately, no financial subsistence can be provided. However, living expenses for the duration of the entire Course will be less than 600 $ (lodging will be available for about 100 $ per week, additional living costs are less than 100 $ per week).
Students interested please sign up via e-mail on the address: kotecky@cucc.ruk.cuni.cz