Problems and Results concerning random matrices

Seminar: 
Combinatorics Seminar
Event time: 
Friday, February 17, 2012 - 9:00am to Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 7:00pm
Location: 
206 LOM
Speaker: 
Van Vu
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University
Event description: 

Van Vu is going to give a brief overview on the main problems in the theory of random matrices, focusing on questions concerning limiting distributions of eigenvalues.

If time allows, he will discuss a few new methods developed in recent years, leading to the establishment of several old conjectures.