Speaker: 

Professor Herbert Spohn

Institution: 

TU Muenchen

Time: 

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 11:00am

Location: 

RH 306

The KPZ equation is a stochastic PDE describing the motion of an interface
between a stable and an unstable phase. We will discuss solutions of the one-dimensional
equation with sharp wedge initial conditions. For long times the Tracy-Widom distribution
of GUE random matrices is recovered.
The talk is based on recent joint work with Tomohiro Sasamoto.