2015-2016 Warwick EPSRC Symposium on Fluctuation-driven phenomena and large deviations

Organisers: Colm Connaughton, Stefan Grosskinsky, Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Oleg Zaboronski

The Warwick EPSRC mathematics symposium is organised annually by the University of Warwick with the support of the EPSRC for the benefit of the mathematical sciences community in the UK. It brings leading national and international experts together with UK researchers in a year-long programme of research activities focused on an emerging theme in the mathematical sciences. The 2015-16 symposium will concentrate on the theme of "Fluctuation-driven phenomena and large deviations". In very general terms, the symposium will constitute an interdisciplinary focus on understanding the consequences of the interplay between stochasticity and nonlinearity, a
recurrent challenge in many areas of the mathematical sciences, engineering and industry.

The core of the symposium year will be a series of research workshops dealing with particular topics and applications within the overarching theme of fluctuation-driven phenomena.

Symposium workshops

• Fluctuation driven phenomena in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
  21 - 25 September 2015
  Organisers: Colm Connaughton, Oleg Zaboronski, Eric Vanden Eijnden, R. Rajesh
• Mathematics of kinetically constrained dynamics and metastability
  4 - 8 January 2016
  Organisers: Paul Chleboun, Stafen Grosskinsky, Fabio Martinelli
• Random matrix theory and strongly correlated systems
  21 - 24 March 2016
  Organisers: Oleg Zaboronski, Roger Tribe, Yan Fyodorov, Gernot Akemann, Neil O'Connell
• Real world risks and extremes: correlation and quantification (this meeting will be held at WBS London in the Shard)
  8 April 2016
  Organisers: Nick Watkins, Joanna Faure-Walker, Ariel Liebman, Colm Connaughton, Trevor Maynard
• Fluctuation-driven phenomena in biological systems
  18 - 22 April 2016
  Organisers: Stefan Grosskinsky, Thomas House, Anton Zilman
• Extreme events in the Earth and planetary sciences
  4 - 8 July 2016
  Organisers: Freddy Bouchet, Colm Connaughton, Ira Didenkulova, Alexandra Tzella
  
• Statistics of extreme and singular events in spatially extended systems
  11 - 15 July 2016
  Organisers: Sergey Nazarenko, Jason Laurie, Colm Connaughton

• Ergodicity breaking and anomalous dynamics
  10-12 August 2016
  Organisers: Colm Connaughton, Nick Moloney, Yuzuru Sato and Nick Watkins

Supplementary activities

• Graduate Summer School in Complexity Science 2015: Stochastic modelling and optimisation of complex systems
• Symposium seminar series [details to appear in due course]