[math-ias] Math conversations @Home Wednesday May 5th

[Silvia Ghinassi]

Dear all, 

It's our pleasure to invite you to the next talk for Math Conversations @Home! 
As you know, this is our penultimate talk for this academic year, and it would be beyond helpful to help us figure out what the future holds if you could donate us 1 (literal) minute of your time by completing this form: [ https://forms.gle/BmzD1EXrdw1mZpio9 | Poll: the future of MC at Home. ] 

Tomorrow ( April 28th ) we will start a t 5:30pm with a virtual happy hour in breakout rooms, as usual. At 6:00pm Amol Aggarwal, Columbia University, will tell us abo ut "Discrete Random Surfaces" , see abstract below. It will be followed by questions and more conversations , as usual. 

Zoom link: [ https://washington.zoom.us/j/95843719385?pwd=T2JQdUVIbk9yK3JaYWVHR0wxRmdtUT09 | https://washington.zoom.us/j/95843719385?pwd=T2JQdUVIbk9yK3JaYWVHR0wxRmdtUT09 ] 
Meeting ID: 958 4371 9385 
Password: gintonic 
(please do not share the link with others ; if you really need to, send me an email) 


Best, 
Silvia and Helmut 

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Abstract: In this talk we discuss two models of a discrete random surface. The first is a Markov process, like a simple random walk, under which the surface is grown according to random updates. The second chooses the surface uniformly at random, after pinning its height along a boundary, like a simple random bridge. We will explain how these two models exhibit drastically different behaviors, each of which is universal in its own sense. 


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