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 |
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| 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 |