Organizing Committee
- Marek Biskup
University of California, Los Angeles - Alexei Borodin
MIT - Béatrice de Tilière
Universite de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie) - Richard Kenyon
Brown University - Senya Shlosman
Aix-Marseille University
Abstract
Since the days of Boltzmann, it has been well accepted that natural phenomena, when described using tools of statistical mechanics, are governed by various "laws of large numbers." For practitioners of the field this usually means that certain empirical means converge to constants when the limit of a large system is taken. However, evidence has been amassed that such laws apply also to geometric features of these systems and, in particular, to many naturally-defined shapes. Earlier examples where such convergence could be proved include certain interacting particle systems, invasion percolation models and spin systems in equilibrium statistical mechanics.
The last decade has seen a true explosion of "limit-shape" results. New tools of combinatorics, random matrices and representation theory have given us new models for which limit shapes can be determined and further studied: dimer models, polymer models, sorting networks, ASEP (asymmetric exclusion processes), sandpile models, bootstrap percolation models, polynuclear growth models, etc. The goal of the workshop is to attempt to confront this "ZOO" of combinatorial examples with older foundational work and develop a better understanding of the general limit shape phenomenon.

Confirmed Speakers & Participants
Talks will be presented virtually or in-person as indicated in the schedule below.
- Speaker
- Poster Presenter
- Attendee
- Virtual Attendee
-
Aaron Abrams
Washington and Lee University
-
Ian Alevy
Brown University
-
Ken Alexander
University of Southern California
-
David Aristoff
Colorado State University
-
Dan Betea
Universite de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie)
-
Alessandra Bianchi
Università di Padova
-
Marek Biskup
University of California, Los Angeles
-
Thierry Bodineau
Ecole Polytechnique
-
Alexei Borodin
MIT
-
Mark Bowick
Syracuse University
-
Michael Brenner
Harvard University
-
Graham Brightwell
London School of Economics and Political Science
-
Joe Chen
University of Connecticut
-
Yanlai Chen
University of Massachusetts
-
Sunil Chhita
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
-
Filippo Colomo
National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN)
-
Ivan Corwin
Columbia University
-
Codina Cotar
University College London
-
Béatrice de Tilière
Universite de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie)
-
Kari Eloranta
Aalto University
-
Emre Esenturk
University of Pittsburgh
-
Patrik Ferrari
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
-
Vadim Gorin
MIT
-
Shahrzad Haddadan
Dartmouth College
-
Michael Harrison
Pennsylvania State University
-
Tyler Helmuth
University of British Columbia
-
Xiaoming Huo
Georgia Institute of Technology
-
Ewa Infeld
Dartmouth College
-
Dmitry Ioffe
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
-
Richard Kenyon
Brown University
-
Alisa Knizel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
Roman Kotecky
University of Warwick
-
Madison Krieger
Brown University
-
Jeffrey Kuan
Harvard University
-
Rob Kusner
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
-
Woden Kusner
Graz University of Technology
-
Jeffrey Lagarias
University of Michigan
-
Tri Lai
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
-
Lionel Levine
Cornell University
-
Zhongyang Li
University of Connecticut
-
Marcin Lis
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
-
Oren Louidor
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
-
Malwina Luczak
Queen Mary and Westfield College
-
L. Mahadevan
Harvard University
-
Paul Melotti
Ecole Normale Suptrieure
-
Sam Miner
University of California, Los Angeles
-
Sevak Mkrtchyan
University of Rochester
-
Hoi Nguyen
Ohio State University
-
Jonathan Novak
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
Greta Panova
University of Pennsylvania
-
Leonid Petrov
University of Virginia
-
Len Pismen
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
-
Timothy Prescott
University of North Dakota
-
Eviatar Procaccia
University of California, Los Angeles
-
James Propp
UMass Lowell
-
Charles Radin
University of Texas at Austin
-
Sanjay Ramassamy
Brown University
-
Rodolfo Rios-Zertuche
Princeton University
-
Dan Romik
University of California, Davis
-
Daria Rudneva
State University Higher School of Economics
-
Emily Russell
Harvard University
-
Lorenzo Sadun
University of Texas at Austin
-
Senya Shlosman
Aix-Marseille University
-
Vladas Sidoravicius
Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA)
-
Charles Smart
Cornell University
-
Andrea Sportiello
Universite de Paris XIII (Paris-Nord)
-
Jessica Striker
University of Minnesota
-
Yi Sun
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
Martin Tassy
University of California, Los Angeles
-
Fabio Lucio Toninelli
Universite Claude-Bernard (Lyon I)
-
Amanda Turner
University of Lancaster
-
Mirjana Vuletic
University of Massachusetts
-
Yizao Wang
University of Cincinnati
-
Xuan Wang
University of North Carolina
-
Samuel Watson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
Peter Winkler
Dartmouth College
Workshop Schedule
Monday, April 13, 2015
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Friday, April 17, 2015
Associated Semester Workshops
Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics (ongoing semester course)
