This Festschrift on the occasion of the 75th birthday of S.R.S. Varadhan one of the most
influential researchers in probability of the last fifty years grew out of a workshop held at
the Technical University of Berlin 15-19 August 2016. This volume contains ten research
articles authored by several of Varadhan's former PhD students or close collaborators. The
topics of the contributions are more or less closely linked with some of Varadhan's deepest
interests over the decades: large deviations Markov processes interacting particle systems
motions in random media and homogenization reaction-diffusion equations and directed
last-passage percolation.The articles present original research on some of the most discussed
current questions at the boundary between analysis and probability with an impact on
understanding phenomena in physics. This collection will be of great value to researchers with
an interest in models of probability-based statistical mechanics.
