Erik Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Making sense of disordered systems: what if Euclid, Newton, and Maxwell did probability?
ZoomDisordered systems are mathematical models (typically of the physical world) that are governed by random variables. These models have offered insights into a diverse array of research problems, and have also brought about a great number of powerful mathematical tools. The through line to the subject is the essential role played by probability theory, a…