Recent progress on Laplacian growth models

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Vittoria Silvestri from Cambridge University
Fine Hall 314

The Hastings-Levitov planar aggregation models describe growing random clusters on the complex plane, built by iterated composition of random conformal maps. A striking feature of these models is that they can be used to define natural off–lattice analogues of several fundamental discrete models, such as the Eden model or Diffusion Limited Aggregation, by tuning the correlation between the defining maps appropriately. In this talk I will discuss shape theorems and fluctuations of large clusters in the weak correlation regime. Based on joint work with James Norris (Cambridge) and Amanda Turner (Lancaster).