By Vladas Sidoravicius, New York University / NYU Shanghai

In the first part of my talk I will focus on the latest developments in the study of Glauber dynamics of Stochastic Ising model on various graphs, explain its importance and review recent achievements. 
The second half of the talk will be dedicated to describe and discuss several important open problems, both on microscopic and macroscopic level, which are of importance to physics, mathematics, and theoretical computer science.