FWF Project P 35428-N: Random surfaces: growth, fluctuations and universality

Project leader: Fabio Toninelli, opens an external URL in a new window

The central theme of this FWF, opens an external URL in a new window funded project is the understanding of the large-scale behavior of random surfaces. Two major innovative aspects are:

• the focus on (2+1)-dimensional (as opposed to: (1+1)-dimensional) stochastic growth, which is to date to a large extent unexplored;
• the search for robust mathematical methods and results that go beyond exactly solvable models

We work on two main interconnected directions:

• super-diffusivity phenomena for (2+1)-dimensional stochastic growth
• universality of fluctuations for two-dimensional random surface, beyond the exactly solvable setting

Project Assistant Postdoc:

Ivailo Hartarsky, opens an external URL in a new window

Project Assistant Praedoc:

Damiano De Gaspari, opens an external URL in a new window

International collaborators:

Alexei Borodin, opens an external URL in a new window (MIT)
Giuseppe Cannizzaro, opens an external URL in a new window (Warwick)
Patrik Ferrari, opens an external URL in a new window (Bonn)
Alessandro Giuliani, opens an external URL in a new window (Roma Tre)
Benoit Laslier , opens an external URL in a new window(Paris)
Nikolaos Zygouras, opens an external URL in a new window (Warwick)

FWF Projekt P 36298: Spins, Loops and Fields, opens an external URL in a new window

Project leader: Marcin Lis, opens an external URL in a new window

Project Assistant Postdoc: Kieran Ryan, opens an external URL in a new window