AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:44

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Random Matrix Theory and Growth Processes, I
Room 328, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Craig A. Tracy, University of California Davis tracy@math.ucdavis.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Continuum Limits of Toda Lattices associated to a Random Matrix Partition Function.
  Nicholas M. Ercolani*, University of Arizona
  Kenneth T.-R. McLaughlin, University of Arizona
  Virgil Pierce, University of Arizona
  (1000-05-45)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Asymptotics of block Toeplitz determinants and the classical dimer model.
  Estelle L Basor*, California Polytechnic State University
  (1000-82-136)

Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Random Matrix Theory and Growth Processes, II
Room 328, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Craig A. Tracy, University of California Davis tracy@math.ucdavis.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Differential Equations for Dyson Processes.
  Craig A. Tracy, University of California, Davis
  Harold Widom*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (1000-60-50)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Averages of Characteristic Polynomials in Random Matrix Theory.
  Alexei Borodin*, Clay Mathematics Institute and California Institute of Technology
  Eugene Strahov, California Institute of Technology
  (1000-60-76)

Sunday October 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Random Matrix Theory and Growth Processes, III
Room 328, Dane Smith Hall
Organizers:
Craig A. Tracy, University of California Davis tracy@math.ucdavis.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Distribution Functions for Edge Eigenvalues in Orthogonal and Symplectic Ensembles: Painlev\'e Representations.
  Momar Dieng*, University of California, Davis
  Craig Tracy, University of California, Davis
  (1000-60-159)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Poisson statistics for the largest eigenvalues of Wigner and sample covariance random matrices with heavy tails of matrix entries distributions.
  Alexander Soshnikov*, University of California at Davis
  (1000-60-10)

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