Random matrices: law of the determinant

Seminar: 
Combinatorics Seminar
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).