About:
In honour of Professor Oliver Penrose, this symposium celebrated his honourary degree, awarded by Heriot-Watt University, in recognition of his lifetime achievements and fundamental contributions in statistical physics.
Resources
Programme:
| Beatrice Pelloni, Heriot-Watt University | Opening remarks |
| Mathew Penrose, University of Bath | Coverage and connectivity in stochastic geometry |
| John Ball, Heriot-Watt University | Viscoelasticity and monodromy |
| Peter Fratzl, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam | Surface tension and tissue growth |
| Bálint Tóth, University of Bristol and Rényi Institute Budapest | Invariance Principle for the Random Lorentz Gas - Beyond the Boltzmann-Grad Limit |
| Break | |
| Joel Lebowitz, Rutgers University | Statistical mechanical ensembles and typical behavior of macroscopic systems |
| Closing remarks |
Sponsors and Funders:
The organisers acknowledge the generous support for this event from the Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust
