Home | People | Events | Programs | Visitor Info

Random Shapes

Workshop I: Random Shapes, Representation Theory, and Conformal Field Theory

March 26 - 30, 2007

Hotel Accommodations and Air Travel

Organizing Committee

Gregory Lawler, Co-Chair (University of Chicago)
Nicholas Read , Co-Chair (Yale University)
Denis Bernard (École Normale Supérieure)
Krzysztof Burdzy (University of Washington)
John Cardy (University of Oxford)
Igor Frenkel (Yale University)
Peter Jones (Yale University)
Steffen Rohde (University of Washington)
Leon Takhtajan (SUNY Stony Brook)

Scientific Background

SLE; the Gaussian free field; Brownian and fractional Brownian motion; representation theory and Virasoro algebras; random conformal and quasiconformal mappings; random Teichmüller theory; random curves and surfaces in Conformal Field Theory, Quantum Gravity, and String Theory.

Invited Speakers

Kari Astala (University of Helsinki)
Yair Bartal (Hebrew University)
Denis Bernard (École Normale Supérieure)
Ilia Binder (University of Toronto)
Krzysztof Burdzy (University of Washington)
Ilya Gruzberg (University of Chicago)
Jesper Jacobsen (Université d'Orsay)
Peter Jones (Yale University)
Nam-Gyu Kang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)
Pierre LeDoussal (École Normale Supérieure)
A. Middleton (Syracuse University)
Bernard Nienhuis (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Nicholas Read (Yale University)
Steffen Rohde (University of Washington)
Hubert Saleur (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA) - Centre d'Études Nucléaires de Saclay (CENS))
Scott Sheffield (New York University)
Stanislav Smirnov (Université de Genève)
Mikhail Sodin (Tel Aviv University)
David Wilson (Microsoft Research)

Contact Us:

Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
Attn: RSWS1
460 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles CA 90095-7121
Phone: 310 825-4755
Fax: 310 825-4756
Email: ipam@ucla.edu
Website: http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/rsws1/