Workshop “Random matrices, related topics and applications”

August 25-30, 2008

Program
 

Monday, August 25, 2008
09:00 - 09:55
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 1221)


Meeting room : 1360

09:55 - 10:00
Welcoming addresses
10:00 - 10:50
Alexei Borodin
(Caltech)
Growth of random surfaces
10:50 - 11:40
Jean-Bernard Zuber
(LPTHE Université Paris 6)
Angular matrix integrals
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:40 - 12:30
Roderick S.C. Wong
(City University of Hong Kong)
Asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials via the Riemann--Hilbert method
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 1360

14:30 - 15:15
Brian Rider
(University of Colorado at Boulder)
The hard to soft transition for all beta
Abstract
15:15 - 16:00
Leonid Chekhov
(Steklov Mathematical Institute)
Genus expansion of matrix models vis exact relations between them
Abstract
16:00 - 16:15
Coffee break
Room 1221
16:15 - 17:00
Aleix Prats Ferrer
(Université de Montréal)
The Chain of Matrices: A complete topological expansion for the formal model
Abstract
17:00 - 17:45
Ioana Dumitriu
(University of Washington)
Fast and stable eigenvalue computations? Use random matrices!
Abstract

17:45
Wine-and-cheese reception
Room 6245

 

Tuesday, August 26, 2008
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:30 - 10:20
Pierre Van Moerbeke
(Univ. Catholique de Louvain)
Non-intersecting Brownian motions, Airy and Pearcey processes
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:40
Gernot Akemann
(Brunel University)
Gap probabilities in Two Matrix Models
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:40 - 12:30
Torsten Ehrhardt
(UC Santa Cruz)
Linear statistics of the Ginibre ensemble and determinants of modified Toeplitz matrices
Abstract

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 1360

14:30 - 15:15
Razvan Teodorescu
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Non-commutative probability theory with random matrices
Abstract
15:15 - 16:00
Tom Claeys
(Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Higher order analogues of the Tracy-Widom distribution and the Painlevé II hierarchy
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
16:00 - 16:15
Coffee break
Room 1221
16:15 - 17:00
Igor V. Krasovsky
(Brunel University)
Asymptotics of Toeplitz, Hankel, and Fredholm determinants
Abstract
17:00 - 17:45
Jeffery DiFranco
(Seattle University)
Total integrals of Painleve functions
Abstract

 

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:30 - 10:20
Mark Adler
(Brandeis University)
Brownian motion from many points to many points which are tangantial to a bulk
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 1221
10:50 - 11:40
Arno Kuijlaars
(Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Critical behavior in non-intersecting path ensembles
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:40 - 12:30
Harold Widom
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
Formulas for probabilities in the asymmetric simple exclusion process
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break


Meeting room : 1360

14:00 - 14:30
Martin Bender
(KTH, Stockholm)
Edge scaling limits for non-Hermitian random matrices
Abstract
14:30 - 15:15
Seung-Yeop Lee
(Université de Montréal)
Outpost colonization in random matrix theory
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:15 - 16:00
Man Yue Mo
(Bristol University)
Entanglement in the generalized XY model and block Toeplitz determinant
Abstract
16:00 - 16:15
Coffee break
Room 1221
16:15 - 17:00
Maurice Duits
(Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Coupled random matrices and biorthogonal polynomials
Abstract
17:00 - 17:45
Yang Chen
(Imperial College London)
TBA

 

Thursday, August 28, 2008
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:30 - 10:20
Alice Guionnet
(École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Matrix models on the unitary or the orthogonal group
Abstract
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 1221
10:50 - 11:40
Nicholas M. Ercolani
(University of Arizona)
Dynamics of Graphical Enumeration
Abstract
11:40 - 12:30
Mourad Ismail
(University of Central Florida)
Completely Monotonic Fredholm Determinants
Abstract

12:30
Lunch break and free afternoon

 

Friday, August 29, 2008
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:30 - 10:20
Kurt Johansson
(Royal Institute of Technology)
Non-invariant random matrix ensembles
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 1221
10:50 - 11:40
Percy Deift
(Courant Institute of Math. Sciences, NYU)
Aymptotics for Determinants with Fisher-Hartwig Singularities
Abstract
11:40 - 12:30
Peter Miller
(University of Michigan)
Universality via the dbar steepest descent method
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break

Session - Contributed Talks
Meeting room : 1360

14:30 - 15:00
Mattia Cafasso
(Sissa-International School of Advanced Studies)
Matrix biorthogonal polynomials on the unit circle and non-abelian Ablowtiz-Ladik hierarchy
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 15:30
Jonathan Novak
(Queen's University)
Some combinatorial apects of truncated random unitary matrices
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Christopher Sinclair
(University of Colorado)
The Ginibre ensemble of real random matrices and its scaling limits
Abstract
16:00 - 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 - 16:45
Da Xu
(University of Iowa)
A Random Matrix Model of black holes
Abstract
16:45 - 17:15
Ahmad Yasamin
(Indiana University-SAMSI)
Maximal Invariants over Symmetric Cones
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
17:15 - 17:45
Aleksander Yu. Orlov
(Institute for Oceanology)
New fermionic representation of certain matrix integrals
Abstract

 

Saturday, August 30, 2008
09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room 1221


Meeting room : 1360

09:30 - 10:20
Nina Snaith
(University of Bristol)
Random matrix theory solutions to mysteries in number theory
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room 1221
10:50 - 11:40
Kim Splittorff
(Niels Bohr Institute)
Non-hermitian RMT applied to QCD
Abstract

Diapos / Slides
11:40 - 12:30
Robert Buckingham
(Université de Montréal)
Asymptotics of Tracy-Widom Distributions
Abstract

Diapos / Slides

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