International Conference

Geometry and Physics of Spatial Random Systems

An interdisciplinary exploration between mathematics and physics of disordered spatial structures   

Bad Herrenalb (Black Forest),  10-15 Sept 2017

The conference is organised by the research unit Geometry and physics of spatial random systems funded by the German Science Foundation DFG, with research activities at the interface of mathematics and physics. We are anticipating around 100 participants, and a program consisting of 8 keynote lectures and a number of invited  and contributed talks, as well as scientific posters. There will be no parallel sessions. We are hoping for a balanced colourful mix of participants, from physics, and mathematics, as well as from related disciplines. We encourage all speakers to make their talks accessible and enjoyable for both communities. The venue, The Church House of the Protestant Academy Baden, is situated in Bad Herrenalb in the northern Black Forest, about 2 hours from Frankfurt by train.

Topics

Boolean Models · Porous Media
Hard-Core Particles · Granular Matter
Minkowski Tensors · Density Functionals
Morphometry · Spatial Statistics
Percolation · Critical Phenomena
Random Tessellations · Foams
Random Fields · Fluctuating Interfaces

Keynote speakers

• Adrian Baddeley (Curtin University, Perth, Australia)

            Fast approximation of the intensity of a spatial point process

• Werner Krauth (Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France)

            Beyond-Metropolis Monte Carlo, from hard disks to plasmas

• Peter Mörters   (University of Bath, UK)

           Metastability of the contact process on fast evolving scale-free networks

• Ivan Nourdin (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

            Nodal statistics of random plane waves

• Adrian Sheppard (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)

           Hysteresis in immiscible fluid flow in porous materials

• Ravi Sheth (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)

           A random walk through the cosmic web

• Paul Steinhardt (Princeton University, USA)

           Hyperuniformity of Quasicrystals and Related Patterns

• Christoph Thäle (University of Bochum)

           A probabilistic view on high dimensional convex bodies

Organisation

DFG Research Group Geometry and Physics of Spatial Random Systems

Daniel Hug, Günter Last, Steffen Winter (Karlsruhe)

Klaus Mecke (Erlangen), Gerd Schröder-Turk (Perth / Erlangen)

Markus Kiderlen, Eva Vedel-Jensen (Aarhus)