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Combinatorics and Growth Models
Student-Run Research| Speaker: | Prof. Craig Tracy, UC Davis |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Wed, Oct 10 2007, 12:10PM |
Description
Randomly growing surfaces have attracted the attention of physicists
and mathematicians for many years. Kurt Johansson in 2000 showed
that a very basic growth model could be solved exactly using the RSK
correspondence from combinatorics together with some techniques from
random matrix theory. These developments will be surveyed in this talk.