报告题目：Percolation theory - A brief history（II）

报告人：Henry Liu, 中山大学数学学院

时间：7月1日（周一）下午2:30-:4:30

地点：广东外语外贸大学大学城校区院系楼123（应用数学系办公室）

报告摘要：

What happens when water is poured into a porous medium? How efficient is a coffee maker? These are some questions that can be addressed by the subject of percolation theory. The subject was founded by Broadbent and Hammersley in the mid 1950s, and has since attracted significant attention from experts in the fields of physics and mathematical analysis. Several deep results have been proved, and many more problems were proposed. An early spectacular result in percolation theory is that the critical probability for bond percolation on the square lattice is exactly 1/2, with the lower and upper bounds proved by Harris (1960) and Kesten (1980).

In this short course, we shall present some of the landmark achievements in percolation theory, as well as recent developments and results in the subject.

Henry Liu 简介: 中山大学数学学院副教授，本科和硕士毕业于英国University College London，美国Memphis大学博士，学习经历包括剑桥大学的高等数学研究中心, 并先后在匈牙利Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics、西班牙Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya、英国University College London、葡萄牙Universidade Nova de Lisboa、中南大学从事博士后研究工作。师从国际著名数学家Béla Bollobás 教授（培养出包括1998年菲尔茨奖获得者 Timothy Gowers 在内的多名国际著名数学家），研究兴趣包括极值图论、随机组合、代数图论以及超图等多个领域，在J. Graph Theory、SIAM Discrete Math.、Linear Algebra & its Applications等学科内国际主流SCI源期刊发表近30篇论文。