Mathematical Statistical Physics

The proceedings of the 2005 les Houches summer school on Mathematical Statistical Physics give and broad and clear overview on this fast developing area of interest to both physicists 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 Glas Theory: Methods and Results
Chapter 6 - C.M. Newman and D.L. 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 - A.D. Sokal: Simulation of Statistical Mechanics Models