Analysis and Stochastics of Growth Processes and Interface Models

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Edited by Peter Mörters, Professor of Probability, University of Bath, Roger Moser, Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Bath, Mathew Penrose, Professor of Probability, University of Bath, Hartmut Schwetlick, Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Bath, and Johannes Zimmer, Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, University of Bath

Preface
Introduction
I QUANTUM AND LATTICE MODELS
Quantum and Lattice Models
1.1: T. Seppäläinen: Directed Random Growth Models on the Plane
1.2: M. Deijfen and O. Häggström: The Pleasures and Pains of Studying the Two-Type Richardson Model
1.3: D. Ioffe and Y. Velenik: Ballistic Phase of Self-Interacting Random Walks
Microscopic to Macroscopic Transition
2.1: X. Blanc: Stochastic Homogenization and Energy of Infinite Sets of Points
2.2: K. Matthies and F. Theil: Validity and Non-Validity of Propagation of Chaos
Applications in Physics
3.1: A. Sakai: Applications of the Lace Expansion to Statistical-Mechanical Models
3.2: S. Adams: Large Deviations for Empirical Cycle Counts of Integer Partitions and Their Relation to Systems of Bosons
3.3: S. Adams and W. König: Interacting Brownian Motions and the Gross-Pitaevskii Formula
3.4: D. Hundertmark: A Short Introduction to Anderson Localization
II MACROSCOPIC MODELS
Nucleation and Growth
4.1: B. Niethammer: Effective Theories for Ostwald Ripening
4.2: N. Dirr: Switching Paths for Ising Models with Long-Range Interaction
4.3: O. Penrose: Nucleation and Droplet Growth as a Stochastic Process
Applications in Physics
5.1: A. Neate and A. Truman: On the Stochastic Burgers Equation with some Applications to Turbulence and Astrophysics
5.2: A. Majumdar, J. Robbins, and M. Zyskin: Liquid Crystals and Harmonic Maps in Polyhedral Domains
Index