The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Universality Class & Related Topics
April 20, 2026 – April 24, 2026
Organizers

Ivan Corwin
Columbia University

Evgeni Dimitrov
USC

Konstantin Matetski
Michigan State University
This workshop will be focused on various aspects of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality. The latter refers to common random fluctuations of a broad class of probabilistic models, including random growing interfaces, exclusion processes, directed random polymers, last passage percolations, etc. These models exhibit deep connections between various areas of mathematics, such as random matrix theory, stochastic PDEs, combinatorics, and integrable systems.
There has been huge progress on the KPZ universality in recent years, and this workshop will help participants keep track of this rapidly developing area of probability theory.
Speakers
- Amol Aggarwal, Stanford University
- Erik Bates, North Carolina State University
- Cesar Cuenca, Ohio State University
- Sayan Das, University of Chicago
- Duncan Dauvergne, University of Toronto
- Shirshendu Ganguly, University of California, Berkeley
- Promit Ghosal, University of Chicago
- Jimmy He, Ohio State University
- Pawel Hitczenko, Drexel University
- Jiaoyang Huang, University of Pennsylvania
- Sergey Korotkikh, University of California, Berkeley
- Benjamin Landon, University of Toronto
- Zhipeng Liu, University of Kansas
- Leonid Petrov, University of Virginia
- Andrei Prokhorov, University of Cincinnati
- Mustazee Rahman, Durham University
- Daniel Remenik, University of Chile
- Marianna Russkikh, University of Notre Dame
- Axel Saenz Rodriguez, Oregon State University
- Evan Sorensen, Columbia University
- Philippe Sosoe, Cornell University
- Li-Cheng Tsai, University of Utah
- Roger van Peski, Columbia University
- Jacek Wesołowski, Warsaw University of Technology
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