Department of Mathematics
University of Toronto
Twelfth Annual
R.A. Blyth Lectures in Mathematics
(Information on the Blyth
Lectures is available on the index page)
Professor Andrei Okounkov
Princeton University
Will give three lectures on
Limit Shapes, Real and Imagined
We are surrounded by limit shapes --- macroscopic
forms produced from microscopic particles by
microscopic laws. One can learn about shape
formation phenomena from very simple random
surface models which can be analyzed exactly.
Surprisingly, the same random surface models appear in
other areas of mathematics and physics, such
as gauge theory and enumerative algebraic geometry.
Lecture 1:
Random Surfaces Around Us
Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 4:10 p.m.
Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George St.
Room 1130
Lecture 2:
Instantons, and How Random Surfaces Count Them
Thursday, March 30, 2006, 4:10 p.m.
Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George St.
Room 1170
Lecture 3:
Toward Probabilistic Mirror Symmetry
Friday, March 31, 2006, 4:10 p.m.
Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George St.
Room 1170
The Blyth Lecture Reception will follow the First Lecture on
Wednesday 29, 2006, at the Faculty Club, 41 Wilcocks Street.
All are invited to attend.
