Kolloquien und Oberseminare Übersicht Detail

Vortragende Person/Vortragende Personen:
Sabine Jansen (LMU München)

Diese Veranstaltung ist Teil der Veranstaltungsreihe „Frauen in der Mathematik“.

Probability theory helps to understand systems made of many individual agents with random behavior. One question of interest is: How is it possible that collective orderly behavior emerges out of individual randomness? Does collective behavior depend in a smooth fashion on underlying system parameters? In statistical physics, the individual "agents" are particles (atoms, molecules...) and the questions are intimately tied to the theory of phase transitions - e.g., from ice to liquid water to vapor. A satisfactory theory for particles in ℝˆd is still elusive. The talk will introduce some notions on statistical physics and present some partial results.