Masterseminar: Percolation

Meeting times:

Preliminary meeting: Friday, July 11, 14:00, SRZ 104
If you consider attending the seminar, please come to the introductory meeting for a short outline of the plans. In case you missed the meeting, please contact the lecturers.

Weekly meeting: t.b.a

The central theme of the seminar will be Percolation, which is a concept commonly used to model porous media. Examples of porous media include the process of brewing coffee, where water flows through ground coffee, or water seeping through gravel. It also applies to the functioning of telecommunication networks and even to the human brain - though the understanding of the latter remains limited.

In this seminar, we will explore the mathematical theory of percolation. Our focus will be on how both classical and modern probabilistic techniques - often intertwined with geometric arguments, which play a central role in percolation—can be used to rigorously establish results that describe this mathematical phenomenon.