EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT


Midwest Probability Colloquium: Thursday's Program

Title: A Riemann-Hilbert Approach to Orthogonal Polynomials
Speaker: Professor Peter Miller
Speaker Info: University of Michigan
Brief Description:
Special Note:
Abstract:

We will discuss some recent results which have come about over the past few years, using results described in Lectures 1 and 2. Topics may include Universality of the Tracy-Widom distribution in random matrix theory, as well as in random tiling problems, Universality of the Sine-Kernel, and the asymptotitc behavior of the partition function of random matrix theory.

Date: Thursday, October 14, 2004
Time: 2:45pm
Where: Room 165, Leverone Hall
Contact Person: Elton P. Hsu
Contact email: elton@math.northwestern.edu
Contact Phone: 847 491 8541
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