The Combinatorics of Multispecies Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Processes

I will begin by motivating the study of exclusion processes from the viewpoint of statistical physics. I will then explain the combinatorics of stationary distributions of the multispecies exclusion processes using the matrix ansatz, the multiline queues of Ferrari and Martin, and explaining the connection to nonsymmetric and symmetric Macdonald polynomials along the way.