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SUMMARY:A roulette with curves and surfaces
DTSTART:20191024T171500
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Professor Juhan ARU - MATH RGM\nAbstract\nIf you need to choos
 e between two equal options\, you can toss a coin. If you need to choose b
 etween six of them\, you roll a dice. If your life decisions have more fac
 ets\, you can ask for help from a roulette. We all know what it means to u
 niformly randomly pick a number from one to ten\, or to open the book from
  a random spot. But what does it mean to pick a random curve\, or a random
  surface? How do such objects look like\, are they beautiful? And why shou
 ld we care about these random objects\, why should we care\, at all?\nBio:
 \nJuhan Aru was born in Estonia\, has bachelor and master degrees in mathe
 matics from University of Cambridge and a master's degree in interdiscipli
 nary life sciences from Université Paris Descartes. He obtained his PhD i
 n mathematics from ENS Lyon\, and spent three years as a post-doc in ETH Z
 urich. In January 2019 he joined EPFL as a tenure-track assistant professo
 r in mathematics.\nHe is interested in how to mathematically describe and 
 study systems where geometric structure and randomness interact. The mathe
 matical field studying such phenomena lies at the interface of probability
  theory\, analysis and mathematical physics. More precisely\, he studies r
 andom curves (SLE curves)\, height functions (Gaussian free field) and oth
 er random geometric structures (e.g. Gaussian multiplicative chaos)\, ofte
 n with roots in the phenomena of\nstatistical physics.\nHe has also done s
 ome work in neurosciences\, written a mathematics book for high-school stu
 dents and has taken part in constructing a computer-based statistics curri
 culum for high schools.
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