The lecture The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics invites you to attend the 2013 Green Family Lectures featuring Wendelin Werner, University of Paris-Sud and ETH Zurich. Public Lecture: “Drawing Paths at Random” Thursday, June 6, 2013 5:00 PM 1425 Physics & Astronomy Building Reception to follow ABSTRACT Drawing Paths at Random Thursday, June 6, 2013 The goal of this lecture will be to give an introduction to angle-preserving transformations (the so-called conformal transformations) and their connections to random fractal curves in the plane. In particular, the presentation will describe the random curves known as Schramm-Loewner Evolutions, which were introduced by Oded Schramm in 1999. They appear in various natural settings and have been the subject of numerous research works. No mathematical background is needed.