Universality for random matrices beyond mean-field models

Seminar: 
Combinatorics Seminar
Event time: 
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
215 LOM
Speaker: 
P. Bourgarde
Speaker affiliation: 
NYU
Event description: 

The goal of this talk is to introduce new ideas to prove universality for a class of random band matrices. We will show that quantum unique ergodicity provides a key role in proving random matrix statistics for such non-mean field models.