Mini-Workshop: Mixing Times in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Universality Class

Abstract

The workshop covered new developments in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) class of growth models and markov chain mixing, broadened by talks on random dimers, matrices and parking functions. Mixing is often related to large time fluctuations, which are governed by universal limits such as the KPZ fixed point. The workshop thus focused on the asymptotic behaviour of KPZ models, the characterization of limiting objects, and cutoff.