Chaire Aisenstadt 2008-2009 Aisenstadt Chair
Prof. Andrei Okounkov
(Princeton University)
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Une série de conférences / A Series of Lectures
The Algebra and Geometry of Random Surfaces
These lectures will be about one of the simplest models of random surfaces, the so-called stepped surfaces, that arise as the zero-temperature interfaces in the 3D Ising model and, also, for example, as the height function representations of hexagonal dimers. A typical question about such surfaces is to describe the behavior of a random surface spanning given boundary and the mesh size of the surfaces goes to zero. Our interest will be in both the global, macroscopic shapes that these surfaces develop, as well as in their local, microscopic properties. These are interlinked in a remarkable fashion that seem to require a certain input from several distant fields, from analysis to noncommutative algebraic geometry.
Le mardi 9 septembre 2008 / Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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Le jeudi 11 septembre 2008 / Thursday, September 11, 2008
16 h / 4:00 p.m.
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, Salle / Room 6214
Un café sera servi à 15h30 au Salon Maurice-l'Abbé – salle 6245
Coffee will be served at 3:30 p.m. in Salon Maurice l'Abbé – Room 6245
Le vendredi 12 septembre 2008 / Friday, September 12, 2008
(Cette conférence s'adresse à un large auditoire / Suitable for a general audience)
16 h / 4:00 p.m.
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, Salle / Room 1360
Un café sera servi à 15h30 et une réception suivra la conférence au Salon Maurice-l'Abbé – salle 6245
Coffee will be served at 3:30 p.m. and there will be a reception after the lecture in Salon Maurice-l'Abbé – Room 6245
Le lundi 15 septembre 2008 / Monday, September 15, 2008
10 h / 10:00 a.m.
Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, Salle / Room 6214
Un café sera servi à 9h30 au Salon Maurice-l'Abbé – salle 6245
Coffee will be served at 9:30 a.m. in Salon Maurice-l'Abbé – Room 6245
Conférences dans le cadre de l'atelier Pavage aléatoire, partitions aléatoires et processus de croissance stochastique
Lectures at the workshop on Random Tilings, Random Partitions and Stochastic Growth Processes
Noncommutative Geometry of Planar Dimers I
Le mardi 2 septembre 2008 / Tuesday, September 2, 2008
16h30 / 4:30 p.m.
Noncommutative Geometry of Planar Dimers II
Le jeudi 4 septembre 2008 / Thursday, September 4, 2008
11h30 / 11:30 a.m.
Université de Montréal
Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour
Salle / Room 6214