Title: Random Loops
Speaker: Martin Hairer
Speaker Info: University of Warwick
Brief Description:
Special Note: Note the unusual time!
Abstract:
A "rubber band" constrained to remain on a manifold evolves by trying to shorten its length, eventually settling on a closed geodesic, or collapsing entirely. It is natural to try to consider a noisy version of such a model where each segment of the band gets pulled in random directions. Trying to build such a model turns out to be surprisingly difficult and generates a number of nice geometric insights, as well as some beautiful algebraic and analytical objects. We will survey some of the main results obtained on the way to this construction.Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2016