Topics at the Interface of PDE and Probability

CNA RTG Summer School

June 15th – June 19th, 2026, Carnegie Mellon University.

Plenary Speakers

  • Scott Armstrong, Sorbonne University: Coarse-Graining and Renormalization of Elliptic PDEs.
  • Ivan Corwin, Columbia University: Boundary effects in stochastic interface growth.
  • Yu Gu, University of Maryland: KPZ: from homogenization to fluctuations.
  • Lenya Ryzhik, Stanford University: From branching Brownian motion to knowledge diffusion in macroeconomics.

Schedule

All talks are in Hall of Arts, Room 160 You can also enter through Posner Hall.

Mon 6/15 Tue 6/16 Wed 6/17 Thu 6/18 Fri 6/19
8:00AM Breakfast + registration Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
9:00AM Armstrong 1 Gu 1 Corwin 3 Armstrong 2 Armstrong 4
10:30AM Break Break Break Break Break
10:50AM Ryzhik 1 Ryzhik 3 Ryzhik 4 Gu 2 Gu 4
12:20AM Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break
2:00PM Ryzhik 2 Corwin 1 Corwin 4 Armstrong 3
3:30PM Break Break Break Break
3:50PM Poster blitz Corwin 2 Career panel Gu 3
5:20PM Poster session / reception

Logistics

  • Breakfast and coffee will be provided on site
  • Coffee and snacks will be provided during the morning and afternoon breaks
  • Lunch will not be provided. There are several campus dining options (see also the official site), several restaurants at the corner of Forbes and Craig (5m brisk walk), some in Schnley Park (8m brisk walk), several in Oakland (12m brisk walk), and some in North Oakland (12m brisk walk).

Registration and Travel Support

  • Please register if you are planning to attend here. (There is no registration fee; please register even if you are local, so we have an approximate headcount.)

  • Travel Support. Funds are available for students and junior researchers to attend the summer-school. The funding will cover lodging, and provide an allowance towards your travel. If you want travel funding please apply on MathPrograms by March 15th.

Travel information

Organizers

  • Organizing committee: Gautam Iyer, Matt Rosenzweig, Misha Shkolnikov, Noel Walkington.
  • Program coordinator: Rachel Burress

Support Acknowledgement

This summer school is funded through NSF award number 2342349, and the Center for Nonlinear Analysis