Event time:
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Location:
215 LOM
Speaker:
Hoi Nguyen
Speaker affiliation:
Yale and OSU
Event description:
Let $A_n$ be an $n$ by $n$ matrix whose entries are independent random variables with mean zero and variance one. In this talk we discuss the basic question: What is the law of the determinant of $A_n$?
(joint work with Van Vu).