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For more than two decades percolation theory, random walks, interacting parti cle systems and topics related to statistical mechanics have experienced inten sive growth. In the last several years, especially remarkable progress has been made in a number of directions, such as: Wulff constructions above two dimen sions for percolation, Potts and Ising models, classification of random walks in random environments, better understanding of fluctuations in two dimen sional growth processes, the introduction and remarkable uses of the Stochastic Loewner Equation, the rigorous derivation of exact intersection exponents for planar Brownian motion, and finally, the proof of conformal invariance for crit ical percolation scaling limits on the triangular lattice. It was thus a fortuitous time to bring together researchers, including many personally responsible for these advances, in the framework of the IVth Brazilian School of Probability, held at Mambucaba on August 14-19,2000. This School, first envisioned and organized by IMPA's probability group in 1997, has since developed into an annual meeting with an almost constant format: it usually offers three advanced courses delivered by prominent scientists, combined with a high-level conference. This volume contains invited articles associated with that meeting, and we hope it will provide the reader with an accurate impression regarding the current state of affairs in these important fields of probability theory.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: In and Out of Equilibrium
Book Subtitle: Probability with a Physics Flavor
Editors: Vladas Sidoravicius
Series Title: Progress in Probability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0063-5
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Boston 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-4289-1Published: 26 April 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-6595-5Published: 23 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-0063-5Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1050-6977
Series E-ISSN: 2297-0428
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 472
Topics: Statistical Theory and Methods, Applications of Mathematics, Mathematical Methods in Physics