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We discuss significant events in the recent Renaissance triggered by the enigmatic and elusive, but rich stochastic nonlinear PDE of Kardar, Parisi & Zhang, a celebrated equation whose reach far exceeds its grasp, touching such diverse phenomena as non-equilibrium stochastic growth, extremal paths through disordered landscapes, driven lattice gases & dissipative condensates, as well as the statistics of random matrices & permutations.

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Timothy Halpin-Healy, Barnard College, Columbia University
Seminarraum Theoretische Physik (Altbau)
Contact: Joachim Krug