The Ant in the Labyrinth

Topic: 
The Ant in the Labyrinth
Date & Time: 
Thursday, April 19, 2018 - 14:00 to 15:00
Speaker: 
Manuel Cabezas, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Location: 
Room 204, NYU Shanghai | 1555 Century Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai

Abstract:

In the 70’s, de Gennes coined the term “the ant in the labyrinth” for a random walk on a percolation cluster. He proposed to study this model as a canonical example for diffusion in disordered media. In this talk we will comment on recent progress toward a scaling limit result for the ant in the labyrinth in the critical, high-dimensional case.

Biography: 

Manuel Cabezas is an Assistant Professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He did his Ph.D. under the supervision of Alejandro Ramirez and then worked as a Postdoc at IMPA (Brazil) with Vladas Sidoravicius. His research interests include diffusion in disorders media, particle systems and self-organized criticality.

Seminar by the NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU Shanghai