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Riddhipratim Basu got his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and his Ph.D. from the Statistics department of University of California, Berkeley. After a postdoctoral stint at Stanford he joined the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research where he is currently a faculty. He is interested in various aspects of probability theory and its applications including models of random growth, random matrices and interacting particle systems.

Abstract: Instances of stochastic growth is ubiquitous in nature, examples include spreading of rumour, infection or forest fires among many others. Various mathematical models have been designed to explain large scale behaviour of such systems and have been extensively studied both in statistical physics and in probability theory over the last few decades. I shall describe some of these models, focussing primarily in the planar case, which are conjectured to exhibit universal features of the so called Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. I shall describe some of the major conjectures in the area and discuss a bit of what is known rigorously.