Speaker
Aleksandra Korzhenkova
Description
Spherical model is a mathematical model of a ferromagnet introduced by Berlin and Kac in 1952 as a rough but analytically convenient modification of the Ising model. Since its inception it has enjoyed considerable popularity among the mathematicians and physicists as an exactly soluble model exhibiting a phase transition. In this talk we will explain its relation to the Gaussian free field in the infinite volume limit and to the spin O(N) model in the infinite spin dimensionality limit.
