26–29 Nov 2024
Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University
Europe/Berlin timezone

Timothy Budd: Random geometry and the enumerative combinatorics of maps

26 Nov 2024, 09:30
1h
Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

Virtual Workshop

Description

In this talk I will give an introduction to the study of the random metrics on surfaces via the combinatorics of planar maps, a topic with a long history in math and physics. I will highlight the use of bijective methods, that have played an important role in establishing scaling limits of random maps towards two-dimensional quantum gravity.

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