Reminder: Invitation to the Joint ICTP-SISSA Colloquium by Prof. Alice Guionnet on "Large Random Matrices and Beyond", at SISSA Headquarters on 9 May at 16:00 hrs CET.

[ICTP/director]

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,**tomorrow, 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 ".

https://indico.ictp.it/event/10299

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