YEP 2005 (Young European Probabilists)
workshops 

Workshop on
"Self-similar random structures Hausdorff dimension and branching"
EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
March 14-18, 2005

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1. Scientific scope

The models of probability and statistical physics give rise to a large number of self-similar random objects the mathematical descriptions of which often make effective use of trees or tree-like structures. For this workshop we have therefore invited two leading experts in the field of probability on trees, Russel Lyons and Balint Virag, who will give minicourses telling us about their current research. A focus of this workshop will be on applications of trees in spatial branching processes and the computation of Hausdorff dimensions, but we hope that a lot of related subjects will be discussed.

In the theory of branching processes the role of trees is perhaps most evident. Classical work makes extensive use of ideas such as size-biased trees, conditioned trees, encoding of trees in random walk excursions and so on. More recent developments go towards branching processes with interactions (such as catalytic and mutually catalytic branching, state dependent branching) and more complex branching mechanisms (e.g. Neveu's branching without mean). The modern toolbox includes more sophisticated techniques such as: Brownian snake (as well as non-Markov tree embeddings), look-back process, stochastic partial differential equations and martingale problems.

Random fractal sets arise naturally from statistical physics models. Many features of physical relevance are encoded in the geometry of these sets. Understanding these geometries pose a major challenge to researchers in probability theory and mathematical physics. Much of the recent progress is based on the idea of finding a tree structure underlying the problem. Techniques based on trees are, e.g., stochastic co-dimension and percolation methods.

Exciting progress has been made in the last years in our understanding of a lot of different models, and it is the aim of this workshop to bring together young researchers, who have worked in one aspect of these fields, to get to know each other, exchange ideas, and initialise cooperations across the fields. We would particularly like to encourage communication across the boundary between discrete and continuous settings.

The workshop will incorporate

Time will be given for individual meetings of participants following the problem sessions to exchange ideas and prepare collaborative problem solving efforts.

Organisers

Achim Klenke (math@aklenke.de ),Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz and Peter Moerters (maspm@bath.ac.uk), University of Bath 

This workshop is sponsored by

                

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