"Feza Gürsey" International Summer School in Mathematical Physics II:
Probability, Statistical Mechanics and Renormalisation Group

16.06.2010 – 02.07.2010
Feza Gürsey Institute
Istanbul - TURKEY

The aim of this summer school is to present to its participants some aspects of the interplay between probability theory and certain statistical mechanical models, as well as rigorous renormalisation group methods applied to various branches of physics.

There will be three long courses (two 16.5h, one 12h) in addition to two shorter ones (7.5h each). Long courses will give a fairly detailed account of the subject matter, whereas the shorter ones will focus on more specific topics. They should be accessible to graduate or advanced undergraduate students, postdocs and faculty members looking for problems to work on the main themes of the summer school.

Long Courses

• David Brydges, University of British Columbia
  Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics in High Dimensions

• Roberto Fernandez, Utrecht University
  Cluster Expansions for Hard-Core Systems

• Christoph Kopper, Ecole Polytechnique
  Renormalisation Theory with Flow Equations

Short Courses

• Bertrand Duplantier, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique
  Random Paths and Liouville Quantum Gravity

• Geoffrey Grimmett, University of Cambridge
  Percolation and Ferromagnetism