Mathematical Statistical Physics

The proceedings of the 2005 les Houches summer school on Mathematicalians and mathematicians.

· Introduction to a field of math with many interdisciplinary connections in physics, biology, and computer science
· Roadmap to the next decade of mathematical statistical mechanics
· Volume for reference years to come

Chapter 1 - K. Johansson: Random Matrices and
Determinantal Processes
Chapter 2 - W. Werner: Some Recent Aspects of Random Conformally Invariant Systems
Chapter 3 - B. Duplantier: Conformal Random Geometry
Chapter 4 - A.-S. Sznitman: Random Motions in Random Media
Chapter 5 - F. Guerra: An Introduction to Mean Field Spin Glass Theory: Methods and Results
Chapter 6 - CM Newman and DL Stein: Short-Range Spin Glasses: Selected Open Problems
Chapter 7 - G. Parisi: Computing the Number of Metastable States in Infinite-Range Models
Chapter 8 - Gerard Ben Arous and Jiri Cerny: Dynamics of Trap Models
Chapter 9 - N. Datta: Quantum Entropy and Quantum Information
Chapter 10 - A. Montanari: Two Lectures on Iterative Coding and Statistical Mechanics
Chapter 11 - A. Etheridge: Evolution in Fluctuating Populations
Chapter 12 - A. Greven: Multi-Scale Analysis of Population Models
Chapter 13 - Christian Maes: Elements of Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Chapter 14 - Frank Redig: Mathematical Aspects of
the Abelian Sandpile Model
Chapter 15 - R. Fernandez: Gibbsianness and Non-Gibbsianness in Lattice Random Fields
Chapter 16 - AD Sokal: Simulation of Statistical Mechanics Models