UW-PIMS MathematicsColloquium:Eyal Lubetzky

  • Date: 05/20/2011
  • Time: 14:30
Lecturer(s):
Eyal Lubetzky
Location: 

University of Washington

Topic: 

The static and stochastic ising models

Description: 

The Ising model, one of the most studied models in mathematical physics, was
introduced in 1925 to model ferromagnetism. Over the last three decades,
significant effort has been dedicated to the analysis of stochastic
dynamical systems that both model the evolution of the Ising model and
provide efficient methods for sampling from it. In this talk I will survey
the rich interplay between the behaviors of the static and the dynamical
models as they both undergo a phase transition at the critical temperature.
In particular I will discuss a fundamental problem on the dynamical model
introduced by Glauber in 1963, which we recently settled in joint work with
Allan Sly. The talk will not assume any prior knowledge on the Ising model
and its critical phenomena. 

Other Information: 

Location: Raitt Hall, Room 121

 

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