This grant will support early career mathematicians from the US to attend St. Petersburg School in Probability and Statistical Physics, to take place in June 2012 at the Chebyshev Laboratory at St. Petersburg State University, Russia. This event is devoted to the most recent advances in the area of spatial probability and to classical areas with current increase of activity. The topics of the school are of a very general interest and concern random walks in random environments, random growth models and random graphs, Gaussian free fields and other spatial random processes as well as random matrices, concentration of measure and Markov chains. With the impressive program of lecture courses and invited talks given by the world-leading experts and more than 120 carefully selected participants, this School will be one of major events in the field of spatial probability in 2012.
Spatial probability is a wide area on the border of modern probability theory and statistical physics that studies certain types of spatial random processes and in particular, the dynamics of complex stochastic systems. The questions that draw a lot of permanent attention include description of phase transitions of such systems, their behavior at criticality, and universality of this behavior. The progress of the last decade shows deep connections between many fundamental models in this field, for example percolation and Ising model, and the other branches of mathematics and physics.
that took place in June 2012 at the Chebyshev Laboratory at St. Petersburg State University, Russia. This event was devoted to the most recent advances in the area of spatial probability and to classical areas with current increase of activity. Spatial probability is a wide area on the border of modern probability theory and statistical physics that studies certain types of spatial random processes and in particular, the dynamics of complex stochastic systems. With the impressive program of lecture courses and invited talks given by the world-leading experts and more than a hundred carefully selected participants, the St. Petersburg School became one of major events in probability theory and related fields in the year of 2012. Participation in the School provided an exceptional opportunity for young researchers to learn front line developments in many important topics, meet the leading experts, establish connections and exchange the ideas for possible future collaboration. The grant was used to support 22 young mathematicians from the US in attending the School. Without this funding their participation would had been very challenging given the prices of lodging and travel to this distant European destination. The money was used to cover in full the costs of accommodation and airfare.
