2008 Enrage Topical School ON GROWTH AND SHAPES

Presentation

The Enrage topical school "ON GROWTH AND SHAPES" consists of five introductory courses designated for PhD students and posdocs in physics and mathematics. The aim is a pedagogical presentation of basic concepts. At the end the audience should be well prepared to understand the current trends of research.

It will take place in Paris at the Institut Henri Poincaré from June 2 to June 6, 2008. There will be ample time and space for discussions and interactions between the participants.

It is followed by the 13th Itzykson Meeting PUZZLES OF GROWTH in Saclay

Program

M. Drmota - Recursive Trees
T. Kennedy - Numerical Simulations of Random Curves
S. Redner - Evolving Random Graphs
H. Saleur - Super-sigma models and random geometry
P. Wiegmann - Laplacian Growth, Evolution of conformal Maps and Singularities of growing Patterns

Bonus! Introductory lecture notes on SLE by M. Bauer and D. Bernrard

Schedule

	Monday, June 2	Tuesday, June 3	Wednesday, June 4	Thursday, June 5	Friday, June 6
9h30	Registration and coffee	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee
10h00	Hubert Saleur	Sidney Redner	Tom Kennedy	Michael Drmota	Paul Wiegmann
11h00	Pause	Pause	Pause	Pause	Pause
11h15	Hubert Saleur	Sidney Redner	Tom Kennedy	Michael Drmota	Paul Wiegmann
12h15	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break
14h00	Tom Kennedy	Hubert Saleur	Michael Drmota	Sidney Redner	Paul Wiegmann
15h00	Pause	Pause	Pause	Pause	Pause
15h15	Tom Kennedy	Hubert Saleur	Michael Drmota	Sidney Redner	Paul Wiegmann
16h15	Coffee & discussions	Coffee & discussions	Coffee & discussions	Coffee & discussions	Coffee and departure
18h00	Closure of IHP	Closure of IHP	Closure of IHP	Closure of IHP

Note that the IHP is open from 8h30 until 18h00 from Monday to Friday. There will be a few offices and meeting rooms available for discussions. The IHP provides an open WiFi network and terminals. The library is open from 9h30 to 18h00. It is reserved for work, silence and deep thoughts.

Organisation

Michel Bauer, IPhT CEA-Saclay
Denis Bernard, LPTENS Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Zdzislaw Burda, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow
François David, IPhT CEA-Saclay
Alexandre Lefèvre, IPhT CEA-Saclay

Registration

Participation in the school is open subject only to space constraints. There is no registration fee. Registration is mandatory, even for Paris-area scientists. Official deadline for registration: May 2, 2008. It is still possible to register.

Participants

The list of participant is available online here.

Accommodation

We do not organise lodging for these two events, but you will find on our accommodation page many useful informations for your stay in Paris.

Support

The School is part of the Topical School series organised by the Marie Curie Research and Training Network ENRAGE (European Network on RAndom GEometry - Random Geometry and Random Matrices: From Quantum Gravity to Econophysics - MRTN-CT-2004-005616).
It is supported by the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (IPhT and Direction des Sciences de la Matière) and by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR).