Summer School on Mathematical Statistical Physics

New York University, New York NY

Investigators

Abstract

The purpose of this proposal is to provide financial support for selected US participants, primarily beginning researchers showing great promise, to attend the July 2005 summer school in mathematical statistical physics at the well- known conference center of les Houches in France. Some of the speakers and their topics are B. Duplantier and W. Werner on conformal invariance, F. Guerra on disordered systems, K. Johansson on random matrices, A.-S. Sznitman on random walks in random environments, A.D. Sokal on Monte Carlo simulations, and A.-L. Barabasi on complex networks. The July 2005 school in Les Houches, France, for advanced graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty, will focus on a variety of models involving randomness that have been of intense interest in recent years among both mathematicians and physicists. The financial support that will be made available to young US researchers will make possible their participation, which can be expected to have a major impact on their careers, and hence on the continuedleadership role of the US in this area. For European participants, support is available from the European Science Foundation; the main objective of this proposal is to ensure that US based junior researchers do not miss this opportunity because of lack of support.