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Random Matrix Theory and its Applications II December 06, 2010 - December 10, 2010

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Dec 06, 2010
Monday
08:30 AM - 08:45 AM
  Welcome
08:45 AM - 09:45 AM
  The Dyson Brownian Minor Process and Consecutive Minors
Mark Adler (Brandeis University)
09:45 AM - 10:15 AM
  Tea
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
  A Useful Integral Representation in ASEP
Harold Widom
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  The KPZ Equation: Lattice Discretizations and Replica
Herbert Spohn (Technische Universität München)
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Height Distributions in One-Dimensional Surface Growth: from ASEP to KPZ Equation
Tomohiro Sasamoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Tea
04:10 PM - 05:00 PM
  Asymptotics of Random Matrices
Alice Guionnet (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Dec 07, 2010
Tuesday
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  TASEP and Gaussian Ensembles: Analogies and Differences
Patrik Ferrari (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
  Tea
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  The Continuum Random Polymer and KPZ
Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  Tracy-Widom Distributions in Experiment: Evidence in Growing Interfaces of Liquid Crystal Turbulence
Kazumasa Takeuchi (The University of Tokyo)
12:30 PM - 02:30 PM
  Lunch
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
  Scaling Exponents for Certain 1+1-Dimensional Directed Polymers
Timo Seppalainen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  Tea
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
  A Combinatorial Approach to the Asymmetric Exclusion Process
Lauren Williams (Harvard University)
05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
  Reception
Dec 08, 2010
Wednesday
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  Universality Limits for Random Matrices via Classical Complex Analysis
Doron Lubinsky
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
  Tea
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  Emergent Conformal Symmetry in Dyson-Selberg Integrals
Paul Wiegmann (University of Chicago)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  TBA
Nikolai Makarov (California Institute of Technology)
Dec 09, 2010
Thursday
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  Finite-Rank Pertutbations of Real Random Matrices
Bálint Virág (University of Toronto)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
  Tea
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  Noncommutative Geometry and Painlevé
Andrei Okounkov (Columbia University; University of California, Berkeley)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  On Height Functions
Nicolai Reshetikhin (University of California, Berkeley)
12:30 PM - 02:30 PM
  Lunch
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
  Target Detection and Localization in the Presence of Noise
Knut Solna
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  Tea
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
  Directed Polymers and the Quantum Toda Lattice
Neil O'Connell (University College Dublin)
Dec 10, 2010
Friday
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  What are the Eigenvalues of a Sum of Non-Commuting Random Symmetric Matrices? : A "Quantum Information" inspired Answer.
Alan Edelman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
  Tea
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  Global Fluctuations for \(\beta\)-Jacobi Ensembles
Ioana Dumitriu (University of California, San Diego)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  \(\lambda\) Expansions of Fredholm Determinants and the Borodin-Okounkov Identity
Nicholas Witte
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
  Lunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
  Scaling Limits of Beta Ensembles
Benedek Valko (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
  Tea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
  Some Remarks on Random Matrix Theory and Statistics
Noureddine El Karoui (University of California, Berkeley)
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