EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT

Title: Introduction to random matrices, II
Speaker: Professor Kenneth McLaughlin
Speaker Info: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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.