May 12-23, 2014

Monday, May 12

12:00 - 5:00 p.m. Registration (Fuld Hall Common Room)

3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Tour of Institute Campus (meet in Fuld Hall Common Room)

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. General review of Beginner Lecture Course by A. Knizel (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)

6:00 p.m. - Welcome dinner (Dining Hall)

 

Tuesday, May 13

8:00 – 10:30 am Breakfast (Dining Hall)

9:15 a.m. Group Photo – Fuld Hall Common Room

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Alice Guionnet, MIT, “Asymptotics of Moments in Random Matrix Theory” Video

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break

10:45 – 11:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Catherine Donati-Martin, Univ Versailles, Saint Quentin,“Extreme Eigenvalue Fluctuation for GUE” Slides

11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Mary Clair Thompson, Lafayette College, "Matrix Sequences and Related Asymptotic Results in Lie Groups"

12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)

2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Beginner Review Session (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)

4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Advanced Review Session (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) Introductions

6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Opening Dinner (Dining Hall)

 

Wednesday, May 14

8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast (Dining Hall)

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Alice Guionnet, MIT, “Asymptotics of Moments in Random Matrix Theory”

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break

10:45 – 11: 45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Catherine Donati-Martin, Univ Versailles, Saint Quentin,“Extreme Eigenvalue Fluctuation for GUE” Slides

11: 50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Diane Holcomb, Univ Wisconsin-Madison, "Properties of Point Process Limits of Random Matrices" Laura Eslava Fernandez, McGill Univ, "Hitting Times Theorems for the Invertibility of Random Matrices"

12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall) 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Beginner Review Session (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Advanced Review Session (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Colloquia (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Olga Holtz, IAS, “Randomization and compressive sensing”

6:00 – 6:30 p.m. Movie (Wolfensohn Hall)

6:30 – 7:45 p.m. Informal dinner (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

 

Thursday, May 15

8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast (Dining Hall)

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Alice Guionnet, MIT, “Asymptotics of Moments in Random Matrix Theory”

10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m T-shirt Sale (Harry’s Bar, Dining Hall) *Cash only*

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break

10:45 – 11:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Catherine Donati-Martin, Univ Versailles, Saint Quentin,“Extreme Eigenvalue Fluctuation for GUE” Slides

11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Emily Redelmeier, Universite Paris - SUD 11, "Topological Techniques for Real and Quaternionic Random Matrices" 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)

2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Beginner Review Session (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)

4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Advanced Review Session (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

5:30 – 6:30p.m. Colloquia (Simonyi Seminar Room) Maryam Fazel, University of Washington, “Filling in the gaps: Recovery from incomplete information”

6:30 – 7:45 p.m. Informal dinner (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

 

Friday, May 16

8:00 – 10:30 a.m. Breakfast (Dining Hall)

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Alice Guionnet, MIT, “Asymptotics of Moments in Random Matrix Theory”

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break

10:45 – 11:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Catherine Donati-Martin, Univ Versailles, Saint Quentin,“Extreme Eigenvalue Fluctuation for GUE” Slides

11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Lingyun Li, UC Davis, "Central Limit Theorem for Linear Statistics of Eigenvalues of Band Random Matrices" Jolanta Pielaszkiewicz, Linkoping Univ, "On Free Cumulant Moment Formula & Asymptotic Spectral Distribution of Random Matrices"

12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)

2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Beginner Review Session (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Advanced Review Session (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

5:00 – 6:00p.m. Special Lecture: Tadashi Tokeida (Wolfensohn Hall) “Toy Models. Would you like to come see some toys?” Video

6:30 – 7:45 p.m. Informal dinner (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

Saturday, May 17 Day off

Sunday, May 18 Day off

Monday, May 19 Princeton University Day (see separate schedule)

8:00 – 10:30 a.m. Breakfast (Dining Hall)

9:45 a.m. – Depart for Princeton Plasma Physics Lab/University (talks, lunch, dinner and ice cream) (Bus departs from IAS no later than 9:45 a.m.) (Bus departs from Princeton at 8:45 p.m. to come back to IAS)

Tuesday, May 20

8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast (Dining Hall)

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Ioana Dumitriu, Univ Washington, “Fluctuations from the Semicircle Law” Slides

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break

10:45 – 11:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Elizabeth Meckes, Case Western Reserve Univ, “Concentration of Measure on the Compact Classical Matrix Groups” Video

11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Natasha Blitvic, Indiana University, "q-Deformed Probability and Beyond"

12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)

2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Beginner Review Session (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)

4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Advanced Review Session (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) "How mathematicians choose to balance their work and their personal lives", Christina Sormani, Lehman College and CUNY Grad Center

6:30 – 7:45 p.m. Informal dinner (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

Wednesday, May 21

8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast (Dining Hall)

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Ioana Dumitriu, Univ Washington, “Fluctuations from the Semicircle Law” Slides

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break

10:45 – 11:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Elizabeth Meckes, Case Western Reserve Univ, “Concentration of Measure on the Compact Classical Matrix Groups” Slides

11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Sarah Plosker, Brandon University, "The Role of Majorization and Trumping in Quantum Information Theory"

12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)

2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Beginner Review Session (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)

4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Advanced Review Session (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Colloquium (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Nalini Anantharaman, , Univ Paris-SUD, “Quantum Ergodicity on Manifolds and on Large Regular Graphs”

6:30 – 7:45 p.m. Informal dinner (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

Thursday, May 22

8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast (Dining Hall)

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Ioana Dumitriu, Univ Washington, “Fluctuations from the Semicircle Law” Slides

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break

10:45 – 11: 45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Elizabeth Meckes, Case Western Reserve Univ, “Concentration of Measure on the Compact Classical Matrix Groups” Slides

11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Ke Wang, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, "Random Weighted Projections, Random Quadratic Forms and Random Eigenvectors"

12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)

2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Beginner Review Session (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)

4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Advanced Review Session (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)

5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) Panel “Student Choice”

6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Closing Dinner (Birch Garden, Dining Hall)

Friday, May 23

8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast (Dining Hall)

9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Beginner Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Ioana Dumitriu, Univ Washington, “Fluctuations from the Semicircle Law” Slides

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break

10:45 – 11:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Elizabeth Meckes, Case Western Reserve Univ, “Concentration of Measure on the Compact Classical Matrix Groups” Slides

11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Evita Nestoridi, Stanford University, "Shuffling Big Decks of Cards and the Bernoulli-Laplace Urn Model" Vivan Healey, Brown University, "Embedded Trees and the Loewner Equation"

12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m.- Depart IAS