Summer Graduate School

The Summer Schools in Probability are a highlight of Canadian probability and are internationally significant.  Launched by PIMS in 2004, the school takes the form of two main 4-week courses along with three mini-courses. The schools have played a major role in the development of an exceptionally strong community of young probabilist in Canada, North America and overseas. This will be the 13th time this school has run.

The two long courses (24 hours each) are:

• Tom Hutchcroft (Caltech), Dimension dependence of critical phenomena in percolation
• Matav Murugan (UBC), Heat Kernel Estimates and Harnack Inequalities

The three minicourses (3 hours each) are:

• Nathanael Berestycki (U. Vienna), Spectral Geometry of Liouville Quantum Gravity
• Nina Holden (NYU), Scaling limits of random planar maps
• Tianyi Zheng (UC San Diego), Random walks on polynomial growth groups

School Structure

There will be two long courses (24 lecture hours each), three minicourses (3 lecture hours each), and 15 hours reserved for short presentations by participants.  The participant presentations are an important component of the school.  They promote interaction amoung participants and provide a panorama of current research in probability. No talks are scheduled on Wednesdays.  Instead, optional excursions are arranged by the organizers. 

Prerequisites

A first year-long graduate course in measure-theoretic probability, roughly covering the material of Billingsley's Probability and Measure. Some familiarity with percolation or other statistical mechanical models would be useful but is not required.

Application Procedure

SLMath is only able to support a limited number of students to attend this school.  Therefore, it is likely that only one student per institution will be funded by SLMath.

For eligibility and how to apply, see the Summer Graduate Schools homepage.

Venue

The summer school will take place at the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Participants will be housed in shared accommodation within the Gage residences at UBC, in six-bedroom suites with shared facilities including kitchen. The interactions between students facilitated by this accommodation style provides important networking opportunities.