15-26 Apr 2024 Les Houches School of Physics (France)

AIMS

Mehran Kardar, Giorgio Parisi and Yi-Cheng Zhang proposed in 1986 an equation describing the scale invariance of various phenomena. This field has experienced a second life in recent years with the identification of universal distributions highlighted in very different models, both at the theoretical (spin chains, lattice gases) and experimental (cold atoms, exciton-polaritons) levels. Our goal is to provide a broad and accessible overview of these advances, together with the most recent results on these topics.
 

Topics

  • Theory of out-of-equilibrium interfaces in random media
  • KPZ scalings in open quantum systems
  • Fluctuations in excitons-polaritons gases
  • Experimental realization of KPZ fronts
  • Driven spin chains
  • Mathematical aspects of the KPZ universality class
     

Format

5 lectures of 6 hours (each lecture is split in four 1h30 sessions of teaching/exercises).

10 invited talks (1h, questions included).

10 contributed talks (30min, questions included).

2 poster sessions.

The book of abstracts is available at this link.

The recordings of lectures and presentations are available at this link.  

Invited Lecturers

  • Elisabeth Agoritsas (DQMP, Université de Genève, Switzerland)
  • Ivan Corwin (Columbia University, USA)
  • Sebastian Diehl (Universität zu Köln, Germany)
  • Tomaž Prosen (Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia)
  • Kazumasa A. Takeuchi (Tōkyō University, Japan)
     

Public

The Doctoral Training School “Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation: new trends in theories and experiments” is primarily intended for doctoral and master students, post-docs and other younger researchers willing to learn these topics, but applications from more experienced researchers will also be considered.

 

Invited speakers

  • Guillaume Barraquand (ENS Paris, France)
  • Jacqueline Bloch (C2N, Paris-Saclay, France)
  • Iacopo Carusotto (INO-CNR BEC Center, Trento, Italy)
  • Giorgio Parisi (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
  • Gregory Schehr (LPTHE, Paris, France)
  • Herbert Spohn (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
  • Marzena Szymanska (University College London, UK)
  • Véronique Terras (LPTMS, Paris-Saclay, France)
  • David Wei (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany)

 

 

Organizers

  • Léonie Canet (LPMMC, Université Grenoble Alpes)
  • Vivien Lecomte (LIPhy, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes)
  • Anna Minguzzi (LPMMC, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes)
     

Group Photo

KPZ 2024 - Group Photo

Contact

Don't hesitate to contact us at: kpz-houches@sciencesconf.org

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