The goal of the program is to bring together mathematicians and physicists working on various aspects of renormalization in dynamical systems. The idea of ​​renormalization group emerged in Quantum Field Theory. Later, in the 1960s, it became a major tool in Statistical Mechanics in the analysis of phase transitions and critical phenomena. One can say that the ideas of renormalization group have revolutionized the field. This development culminated in Wilson's expansion based on his ideas on intrinsic relation between physical parameters in different scales.

In the 1970s the renormalization ideology was transferred to Dynamics in the context of Universality discoveries by Feigenbaum, Coullet and Tresser, and has since become one of the most powerful tools of understanding small scale structure of a large variety of systems. It has become particularly well (and rigorously) developed in the Conformal context, in particular, in the geometric problems related to the celebrated MLC Conjecture on the local connectivity of the Mandelbrot set.

Today, the renormalization ideas have penetrated deeply into many areas of Mathematics and Physics, but an explicit relation between various areas often remains elusive. One of our goals is to look for a unifying approach that would cover various manifestations of the renormalization.

Organizers:
Kostya Khanin, University of Toronto, Canada; Misha Lyubich, Stony Brook University