Anson L. Clark Memorial Lecture, technical talk, open to all.  
For a wider audience version, please see "What is a Random Walk?" on 4/12/2011.  

Please park in lot I if coming from off campus. See utdallas.edu/maps

Live webcast: mms://streaming.utdallas.edu/live_high_quality 

Many 2D lattice models of statistical physics (percolation, Ising, self-avoiding polymers) are conjectured to have conformably invariant scaling limits at critical temperatures, which were used by physicists in deriving many of their properties. Proving these conjectures requires finding "discrete conformal invariants" associated to the models.

The UT Dallas School of Natural Sciences & Mathematics is very proud to host Stanislav Smirnov, PhD, Professor at the Université de Genève (Switzerland) and St. Petersburg State University, as the 2011 Anson L. Clark Memorial Lecturer. Dr. Smirnov is the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Fields Medal, awarded to extraordinary mathematicians under the age of forty.  The Fields Medal is considered an equivalent to the Nobel Prize in the field of mathematics.


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