Random Matrix Theory and Combinatorics

June 2-6, 2002

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
251 Mercer Street
New York, New York  10012
 
 

Schedule of Events


Sunday, June 2 Speaker Title
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:45 a.m. David W. McLaughlin
Courant Institute
Introductory Remarks
10:00 to 10:45 a.m. Craig Tracy
UC Davis
Introduction to RMT techniques in Combinatorics
11:00 to 11:45 a.m. Herbert Spohn
Tech Universität München
Scaling limit for the PNG droplet
12:00 to 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 to 2:45 p.m. Vladimir Korepin
SUNY, Stony Brook
Quantum Correlations and Number Theory
3:00 to 3:45 p.m. James Propp
Wisconsin, Madison
Random Tilings, Height Functions, and Domain Boundaries
3:45 to 4:15 p.m. Tea
4:15 to 5:00 p.m. Alexander Soshnikov
UC Davis
On the largest eigenvalue of a sparse random subgraph of the hypercube
Monday, June 3 Speaker Title
9:30 to 10:15 a.m. Martin Zirnbauer
Universität zu Köln
Random Matrices in Mesoscopic Physics
10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Thomas Spencer
IAS
Band random matrices and Supersymmetry
11:15 to 11:45 a.m. Coffee Break
11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Horng-Tzer Yau
Courant Institute
Superdiffusivity of the two dimensional asymmetric simple exclusion process
12:30 to 2:15 p.m. Lunch
2:15 to 3:00 p.m. Michael Prähofer
Tech Universität München
Stationary density-density correlations for Hammersley's particle process
3:15 to 4:00 p.m. Timo Seppalainen
Wisconsin, Madison
Second class particles in exclusion processes and their connection with increasing sequence models
4:00 to 4:30 p.m. Tea
4:30 to 5:15 p.m. Xin Zhou
Duke
Asymptotic Study of Orthogonal Rational Functions
Tuesday, June 4 Speaker Title
10:00 to 10:45 a.m. Peter Sarnak
Courant Institute
Random Matrices in the Theory of Zeta Functions
11:00 to 11:45 a.m. Iain Johnstone
Stanford
Some largest eigenvalue problems in statistics
11:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Lunch
1:45 to 2:30 p.m. Franz Merkl
Univ of Bielefeld
Moderate deviations for longest increasing subsequences in random permutations
2:45 to 3:30 p.m. Peter Miller
Michigan
Asymptotics for Discrete Orthagonal Polynomials with General Weights
3:30 to 4:00 p.m. Tea
4:00 to 4:45 p.m. Marco Bertola
CRM
Duality of Differential Equations arising in the Two-Matrix Model and associated Riemann-Hilbert Problems
5:00 to 6:00 p.m. Special Session: 
Short Presentations
       5:00 to 5:20 p.m. Ioana Dumitriu
MIT
Matrix Models for Beta Ensembles and Applications
       5:20 to 5:40 p.m. Alex Gamburd
Stanford
Random Matrices and Magic Squares
       5:40 to 6:00 p.m. Chjan Lim
RPI/Nat'l U of Singapore
Two-dimensional Vortex Statistics and Random Matrices
Wednesday, June 5 Speaker Title
9:30 to 10:15 a.m. Anatoly Vershik
Steklov Institute
Random Matrices in Geometry
10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Jason Fulman
Univ of Pittsburgh
Covers of curves and random matrix theory over finite fields
11:15 to 11:45 a.m. Tea
11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eric Rains
AT&T
Interpolating little q-Jacobi ensembles
12:30 to 2:15 p.m. Lunch
2:15 to 3:00 p.m. Grigori Olshanski
IITP
Measures of hypergeometric type on dual objects to compact groups and symmetric spaces
3:15 to 4:00 p.m. Alexei Borodin
IAS
Distribution of the first particle in discrete orthagonal polynomial ensembles
4:00 to 4:30 p.m. Tea
4:30 to 5:15 p.m. Ken McLaughlin
UNC, Chapel Hill
A complete asymptotic expansion for the partition function of random matrix theory via Riemann-Hilbert techniques
Thursday, June 6 Speaker Title
10:00 to 10:45 a.m. Andrei Okounkov
UC, Berkeley
Schur process and local shape of a random 3D partition
11:00 to 11:45 a.m. Eitan Bachmat
Ben Gurion University
Disk scheduling and increasing subsequences
11:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Lunch
1:45 to 2:30 p.m. Mark Adler
Brandeis
Discrete-Painleve Recursion Relations for Unitary Integrals and the Toeplitz Lattice
2:45 to 3:30 p.m. Nick Witte
Univ of Melbourne
Algebraic approaches to random matrix theory and combinatorial problems
3:30 to 4:00 p.m. Tea
4:00 to 4:45 p.m. Jinho Baik
Princeton
Painleve expressions for LOE, LSE and interpolating ensembles