Charles M. (Chuck) Newman has been a leader in Probability Theory and Statistical Physics for nearly half a century. This three-volume set is a celebration of the far-reaching scientific impact of his work. It consists of articles by Chuck's collaborators and colleagues across a number of the fields to which he has made contributions of fundamental significance. This publication was conceived during a conference in 2016 at NYU Shanghai that coincided with Chuck's 70th birthday.

The sub-titles of the three volumes are:

I. Spin Glasses and Statistical Mechanics

II. Brownian Web and Percolation

III. Interacting Particle Systems and Random Walks

The articles in these volumes, which cover a wide spectrum of topics, will be especially useful for graduate students and researchers who seek initiation and inspiration in Probability Theory and Statistical Physics.

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Rabi Bhattacharya, Lizhen Lin: Differential geometry for model-independent analysis of images and other non-euclidean data: recent developments.- Federico Camia, Rene Conijn, Demeter Kiss: Conformal measure ensembles for percolation and the FK-Ising model.- Colin L. Clark, Larry Winter: Stochastic Hydrogeology: Chuck Newman had a good idea about where to start.- Michael Damron, Pengfei Tang: Superlinearity of geodesic length in 2D critical first-passage percolation.- Hugo Duminil-Copin, Vincent Tassion: About the slab percolation threshold for the Potts model in dimension d = 4.- William G. Faris: Rooted tree graphs and the Butcher group: Combinatorics of elementary perturbation theory.- L. R. G. Fontes: A stronger topology for the Brownian web.- Alberto Gandolfi: FKG (and other inequalities) via (generalized) FK representation (and iterated folding).- Valdivino V. Junior, Fabio Machado, Krishnamurti Ravishankar: The rumor percolation model and its variations.- Leonardo T. Rolla: Site Percolation on a Disordered Triangulation of the Square Lattice.- Emmanuel Schertzer, Rongfeng Sun: Perturbations of Supercritical Oriented Percolation and Sticky Brownian Webs.