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Probability and Combinatorics

Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 3:00pm

Jian Ding

University of Chicago

Location

University of Pennsylvania

4C6 DRL

I will present a few recent results on random planar metrics of two-dimensional discrete Gaussian free fields, including Liouville first passage percolation, the chemical distance for level-set percolation and the electric effective resistance on an associated random network. Besides depicting a fascinating picture for 2D GFF, these metric aspects are closely related to various models of planar random walks.