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.
 

• 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
   

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.

• 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)
   

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.

• 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)

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

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