Terry Wall Lecture 2025: Connections via chains of random loopsInfo Location Attendee Categories More Info Event Information
DescriptionThis is the registration page to attend the 2025 Terry Wall lecture remotely. No registration is necessary to attend in person. The 2025 Terry Wall lecture in Pure Mathematics will be delivered by the renowned mathematician Professor Wendelin Werner, pioneer in the field of random processes and the study of phenomena at criticality, and winner of the Fields Medal. The lecture will take place on Thursday 1st of May at 4pm. Abstract: I will describe a simple mathematical objects related to basic physics. It is a cloud of independent random Brownian loops that can be thought of as appearing spontaneously in space or on a graph. For reasons that I will try to explain, the object of study are the connections that can be created by chains of intersecting loops. We will describe a new -- possibly surprising -- identity that allows to give an alternative exact description of the picture when one observes that two given points are connected, and we will discuss why this is of interest.
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Additional ItemsMore InformationAbout the speaker: Wendelin Werner FRS is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD in 1993 from the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, under the supervision of Jean-François Le Gall. The work of Prof. Werner has been fundamental to our understanding of random processes, connecting areas of mathematics such as statistical physics and complex analysis and shedding light on the fascinating interplay between randomness and continuity. He has made crucial contributions to our understanding of phenomena at criticality. These are points where a physical system has a phase transition, such as water freezing or boiling at 0 and 100 degrees Celsius respectively. Among his major accomplishments, is Prof. Werner's study of the Schramm-Lower evolution, which gives a unified description of a multitude of critical phenomena, as well as the Brownian loop-soup, which provides a new way of looking at objects in the plane. Prof. Werner was awarded the Fields medal in 2006. He has received many other honours and accolades, including the Fermat Prize in 2001, the Pólya Prize in 2006, and the Heinz Gumin Prize in 2016. He was elected a Fellow to the Royal Society in 2020. About the lecture: The Terry Wall Lecture at the University of Liverpool is an annual lecture on a topic in Pure Mathematics (broadly construed) by an internationally distinguished speaker. The lecture is named in honour of Professor Terry Wall FRS, Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Liverpool from 1965 until his retirement in 1999. During this time he served terms as Head of the Department of Pure Mathematics and as President of the London Mathematical Society. His research has been recognised by a number of prestigious awards and honours, including the Senior Whitehead Prize and the Pólya Prize of the LMS, the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society, and election as a Fellow of the Royal Society. You will be contacted shortly before the lecture with instructions on how to join. | ||||||||||||||||