Dear
All,
You are most cordially invited to the Joint ICTP-SISSA
Colloquium by Prof. Alice Guionnet, Director of Research
at ENS de Lyon, on "Large Random Matrices and Beyond".
The Colloquium will take place at SISSA Headquarters,
in via Bonomea, room 128, TODAY, Tuesday 9 May
at 16:00 hrs CET.
Biosketch:
Alice Guionnet is a French mathematician known for her work
in probability theory, in particular on large random
matrices. She has been a pioneer in large deviation
principles and heavy tail distribution of random matrices.
She is currently a Director of Research at ENS de Lyon. She
has received many international recognitions among which the
Rollo Davidson Prize, the Loève Prize, the Blaise Pascal
Medal of the European Academy of Sciences. In 2017 she was
elected to the French Academy of Sciences and Academia
Europaea. In 2022 she was elected as an international member
to the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and International
Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
(AAAS).
Abstract
: Large random matrices were born about a century ago in the
work of the statistician Wishart to analyse big array of
noisy data. It was then shown in the fifties by Wigner and
Dyson to be a good model for the Hamiltonian of certain
heavy nuclei, hence finding its way in quantum physics. Even
more surprisingly, Montgomery gave a numerical evidence that
random matrices are intimately related with the zeroes of
Riemann Zeta function in the seventies. During the last
thirty years, random matrix theory developed as a mature
field. In this talk, after underlying a few other domains
where random matrices play a central role, Prof. Guionnet
will discuss the random matrix theory of Bernoulli Matrices,
presenting old and new results as well as open problems. The
title of the Colloquium is " Large Random Matrices and
Beyond ".
Looking
forward to your participation.
With best regards,
Zina Makkawi
Director's Office, ICTP