Mathematical Statistical Physics: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School 2005

The proceedings of the 2005 les Houches summer school on Mathematical Statistical Physics give and broad and clear overview on this fast developing area of interest to both physicists and mathematicians.

Introduction to a field of math with many interdisciplinary connections in physics, biology, and computer scienceRoadmap to the next decade of mathematical statistical mechanicsVolume for reference years to come

Informal Seminars

Random Matrices and Determinantal Processes

Some Recent Aspects of Random Conformally Invariant Systems

Conformal Random Geometry

Random Motions in Random Media

An Introduction to Mean Field Spin Glas Theory: Methods and Results

Short-Range Spin Glasses: Selected Open Problems

Computing the Number of Metastable States in Infinite-Range Models

Dynamics of Trap Models

Quantum Entropy and Quantum Information

Two Lectures on Iterative Coding and Statistical Mechanics

Evolution in Fluctuating Populations

Multi-Scale Analysis of Population Models

Elements of Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Mathematical Aspects of the Abelian Sandpile Model

Gibbsianness and Non-Gibbsianness in Lattice Random Fields

Simulation of Statistical Mechanics Models