Abstract:
We will describe natural intrinsic relations between conformal loop ensembles, Liouville quantum gravity and some simple branching processes, and some consequences of theses relations. This is based on joint ongoing work with Jason Miller and Scott Sheffield.
Biography:
Wendelin Werner is a French mathematician working on random processes such as self-avoiding random walks, Brownian motion, Schramm–Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. He is professor at ETH Zürich in Switzerland.
He studied at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, wrote his doctorate under the supervision of Jean-François Le Gall at Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in Paris, and was a researcher at CNRS from 1991 to 1997. He has been Professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay from 1997 to 2013.
He has received many awards for his research, including the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006.
Seminar by the NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU Shanghai
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