Scaling limits: from statistical mechanics to manifolds

A workshop in honour of James Norris' 60th birthday

7th-9th September 2020, Cambridge

This workshop will take James' work as a jumping-off point for an exploration of future research directions in probability. There will be 16 invited talks loosely covering the following themes:

• Random growth processes and SPDEs
• Yang-Mills measure
• Limits of random graphs, random planar maps, and fragmentation processes
• Markov chains, interacting particle systems and fluid limits
• Diffusion processes and heat kernels.

The workshop will start at 9:30 am on Monday, September 7, 2020 and will finish at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, September 9, 2020.

There will be a workshop dinner on the Tuesday evening at Churchill College.

Conference registration.  Deadline: June 30, 2020.

Organisers: Christina Goldschmidt (Oxford), Jason Miller (Cambridge), Perla Sousi (Cambridge) and Amanda Turner (Lancaster).

List of speakers

• Inés Armendáriz (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
• Ismaël Bailleul (Université de Rennes)
• Martin Barlow (University of British Columbia)
• Jean Bertoin (Universität Zürich)
• Thomas Cass (Imperial College London)
• Richard Darling (National Security Agency)
• Alison Etheridge (University of Oxford)
• Karen Habermann (Sorbonne Université)
• Martin Hairer (Imperial College London)
• Daniel Heydecker (University of Cambridge)
• Svante Janson (Uppsala Universitet)
• Thierry Lévy (Sorbonne Université)
• Terry Lyons (University of Oxford)
• Sara Merino-Aceituno (Universität Wien)
• Grégory Miermont (Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon)
• Vittoria Silvestri (Università di Roma La Sapienza)

Practical arrangements

The workshop will take place at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge. Accommodation for speakers and invited participants will be at Churchill College. Other accommodation may be found at UniversityRooms.

We are very grateful for funding from

and the

Peter Whittle Fund.