"Baby-Clay" Lectures at IMPA (fwd)

[Maria Eulalia Vares <eulalia@cbpf.br>]

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Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 19:40:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Vladas Sidoravicius <sidoravi@courant.nyu.edu>
To: vladas@impa.br

Subject: "Baby-Clay" Lectures at IMPA

Dear Colleagues,
as you probably know, during the period July 11-August 7, 2010, in Buzios we 
will held the Clay Summer School "Probability and Statistical Physics in Two 
and more Dimensions" (for the programm see 
http://www.claymath.org/programs/summer_school/2010/).

It is advanced school which brings its participants to the frontier  of 
research in various directions of contemporary probability, combinatorics and 
statistical physics. Students will be exposed to the lectures and seminars of 
major exponents in these fields.

Since the school is intended for advanced students, we are organising at IMPA 
"Baby-Clay" Lectures which are intended to help students who are intended to 
apply for the Clay School to improve their knowledge in areas which are lying 
away from pathways of traditional probability training. During the period of 
January-February we will have a minicourse and several informal Lecture courses 
of 4-5 lectures on the following topics:

Margherita Dissertori (Univ. Rouen)
Introduction to the supersymmetric approach and its applications to random 
matrix problems

Vincent Beffara (ENS-Lyon)
Introduction to Gaussian Free Field and basics of quantum gravity.

Hugo Duminil (Univ. Geneve)
Parafermion in lattice models.

Omer Angel (UBC)
Intorduction to planar maps and their scaling limits.

Please  forward this information to those who might be interested to attend. 
Students could contact me directly (vladas@impa.br).

Thank you very much,
Best wishes,
Vladas