Registration Deadline: January 24, 2027

Instructor: Professor Benjamin Landon, University of Toronto

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• Students from our Principal Sponsoring & Affiliate Universities: Free
• Other Students: CAD$500

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Course Description

A rigorous introduction to the statistical mechanics of spin systems on the lattice, such as the Ising and O(N) models. Phase transitions, high temperature and low temperature expansions. Behaviour at the critical point. Correlation inequalities. Triviality in high dimensions.

Prerequisites: Graduate probability

Textbooks:

• S. Friedli. and Y. Velenik, Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Systems: A Concrete Mathematical Introduction.
• Roland Bauerschmidt's lecture notes on spin systems.