AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, November 2, 2008 00:29:44

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Random Matrices, I
Room 150, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Leonard N. Choup, University of Alabama in Huntsville lnc0002@uah.edu
Jack Silverstein, North Carolina State University
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the Limiting Shape of Random Young Tableaux for Markovian Words.
  Christian Houdre, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Trevis Litherland*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1044-60-121)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The correspondence between different approaches to derivation of PDE for random matrix gap probabilities and orthogonal functions.
  Igor Rumanov*, University of California at Davis
  (1044-60-201)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Edgeworth Expansion of the Probability Distribution of the Largest Eigenvalue from GSE.
  Leonard Choup*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  (1044-60-242)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Wishart distributions for decomposable graphs.
  Helene Massam*, York University
  (1044-62-231)

Saturday October 25, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Random Matrices, II
Room 150, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Leonard N. Choup, University of Alabama in Huntsville lnc0002@uah.edu
Jack Silverstein, North Carolina State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Universality of the Toda lattice for integrable hierarchies.
  Yuji Kodama, The Ohio State University
  Virgil U Pierce*, The University of Texas -- Pan American
  (1044-35-118)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Asymptotics of large random strict plane partitions and generalized MacMahon's formula.
  Mirjana Vuletic*, California Institute of Technology
  (1044-60-209)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Fluctuations of Kesten's Law.
  James A. Mingo*, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
  (1044-60-152)

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