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 ".


The event will be livestreamed at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2mWbZSGJ9c

Looking forward to your participation.

With best regards,

Zina Makkawi

Director's Office, ICTP