Lauren Williams. Combinatorics of Hopping Particles and Orthogonal Polynomials

2016 Breakthrough Prize Symposium in Mathematics

Session:
Mathematical Horizons

Chair:
David Eisenbud (UC Berkeley)

Featuring talks by:
1. Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford). Nonlinear Large Deviations.
2. Lauren Williams (UC Berkeley). Combinatorics of Hopping Particles and Orthogonal Polynomials.
3. Ian Agol (UC Berkeley). Thurston's Vision Fulfilled?
4. David Nadler (UC Berkeley). Back in Black: Geometry's Payment Plan to Number Theory.
5. George Lakoff (UC Berkeley). The Brain's Mathematics: The Cognitive and Neural Foundations of Mathematics.