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Introductory Workshop: Random Matrix Models and their Applications January 19, 1999 - January 23, 1999
Registration Deadline: January 23, 1999 about 24 years ago
To apply for Funding you must register by: October 19, 1998 over 24 years ago
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Organizers E. Basor (Chair), P. Bleher, A. Its, and C. Tracy
Description
The introductory workshop plays a pivotal role in the program, whose main goal is to create a common understanding of the various problems and new ideas which have recently arisen in the theory of random matrices. This workshop is not intended for the specialist, although many experts will be there to participate and interact with others interested in learning about this material, but rather for the mathematician in any field who would like to know more about these exciting areas and their applications in other parts of mathematics. The workshop will be a mini-version of the entire semester and is intended to give overview of the whole program. To that end, several short series of lectures (one series = two or three one hour lectures) given by the experts in the various aspects of the program and addressed to a broad audience will be organized. The topics of the lectures will be chosen to exhibit the relation of random matrix models to completely integrable systems; the Riemann-Hilbert and Virasoro algebra approaches; the related developments in topological field theories, exactly solvable statistical mechanics models, and representation theory of quantum affine algebras; relations to number theory and to quantum chaos. There will be four lectures each day supplemented by informal discussions and ad hoc seminars. Lecturers will include: R. Baxter, E. Brézin, P. Deift, B. Dubrovin, M. Jimbo, M. Mehta, P. van Möerbeke, P. Sarnak, C. Tracy, H. Widom, and X. Zhou.
Keywords and Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC)
Primary Mathematics Subject Classification No Primary AMS MSC
Secondary Mathematics Subject Classification No Secondary AMS MSC
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Jan 19, 1999
Tuesday
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Random Matrices I
Madan Lal Mehta
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Random Matrix Models
Peter Sarnak
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Random Matrices and Random Surfaces 1
Eduoard Brezin
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Kernels of Integral Operators and Eigenvalue Distribution in Random Matrix Ensembles I
Harold Widom
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Random Matrices 2
Madan Lal Mehta
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Random Matrices and Random Surfaces 2
Eduoard Brezin
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  0's of Zeta Functions and Random Matrices
Peter Sarnak
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Reimann Hilbert Problems
Xin Zhou
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Integral Operators
Percy Deift
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Universalities in Random Matrices
Eduoard Brezin
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Kernels of Integral Operators and Eigenvalue Distribution in Random Matrix Ensembles II
Harlod Widom
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Integral Systems and Random Matrices 1
Pierre van Moerbeke
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Frobenius Manifolds, Isomonodromy Deformations, and Integrable Hierarchies 1
Boris Dubrovin
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Steepest Descent Method
Xin Zhou
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Orthogonal Polynomial and Random Matrix Theory
Percy Deift
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Integral Systems and Random Matrices 2
Pierre van Moerbeke
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Matrix Enssembles with General B, 1
Peter Forrester
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Random Matrices 3
Madan Lal Mehta
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Matrix Enssembles with General B, 2
Peter Forrester
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Distribution Functions for Linear Statistics
Estelle Basor
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Integral Systems and Random Matrices 3
Pierre van Moerbeke
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  Frobenius Manifolds, Isomonodromy Deformations, and Integrable Hierarchies 2
Boris Dubrovin