SCHEDULE

Semester Timeline
No.	Date	Topic	Remarks
1	Wed Feb 8	Hermite, Laguerre and Jacobi: the uniquitious triad and the moment problem	[Syllabus][PSet1]
2	Mon Feb 13	Joint element and eigenvalue density for the Hermite Ensemble
3	Wed Feb 15	Joint element and eigenvalue density for the Laguerre Ensemble, Demonstration of Julia's Power!	PSet1 Due [PSet 2]
	Fri Feb 17	Introduction to Jack Polynomials	Extra Research Class
4	Mon Feb 20	no lecture	MIT Holiday
	Tue Feb 21	Jacobi Ensemble: angle between subspaces, gsvd, CS decomposition and all that
5	Wed Feb 22	Computer Free Random Matrix Factorization	PSet 2 Due [PSet 3][PS3 Supp]
	Fri Feb 24	More on Jack Polynomials	Extra Research Class
6	Mon Feb 27	Guest lecture
7	Wed Feb 29	Matrix Jacobians with Wedge product
8	Mon Mar 5	How to do integration over the Orthogonal group and Why is it important?
9	Wed Mar 7	Cauchy-Binet formula and its consequence	[PSet 4] [Chapter 11]
	Fri Feb 17	Group Representation and Zonal Polynomials	Extra Research Class
10	Mon Mar 12	Tracy-Widom Law I
11	Wed Mar 14	Tracy-Widom Law II
12	Mon Mar 19	Eigenvalue Spacing Distribution and Random Polynomials
13	Wed Mar 21	More on Spacing Distribution	[Suggested Projects List]
	Mon Mar 26	no lecture	Spring Break
	Wed Mar 28	no lecture	Spring Break
14	Mon Apr 2	Random Gowth Model
15	Wed Apr 4	Aztec Diamond and Longest Increasing Subsequence
16	Mon Apr 9	Longest Increasing Subsequence, Young Tableaux and Schensted Correspondence
17	Wed Apr 11
	Mon Apr 16	no lecture	Patriots Day
18	Wed Apr 18	Free Probability I
19	Mon Apr 23	Free Probability II
20	Wed Apr 25	Free Probability III
21	Mon Apr 30	Free Probability IV
22	Wed May 2	Free Probability V
23	Mon May 7	Project Presentation
		Yufei Zhao, Spectrual Distributions of Random Graphs	[slides][report]
		Yi Sun, Virasoro Constraints and the Tracy-Widom Law	[slides][report]
24	Wed May 9	Project Presentation
		Chenhui Hu, Spectral Perturbation of Small-World Networks	[slides][report]
25	Mon May 14	Project Presentation
26	Wed May 16	Project Presentation