18.338 Eigenvalues of Random Matrices(Spring 2013)

 

SCHEDULE

Semester Timeline
No. Date Topic Remarks
1 Wed Feb 6 Hermite, Laguerre and Jacobi ensemble: the uniquitious triad[Syllabus][PS0]
2 Mon Feb 11 From Gaussian Ensembles to Stochastic Operators[PS1]
3 Wed Feb 13 [Event] Random Matrix Theory Afternoon [2:30-6pm at 4-163]
Mon Feb 18 no lecture Presidents Day
4 Tue Feb 19 Brownian Motion and Stochastic Operator
5 Wed Feb 20 Eigenvalue Pertubation Theory and Dyson-Brownian Motion[PS2][PS2supp]
6 Mon Feb 25 Jacobi Ensemble: angle between subspaces, gsvd, CS decomposition and all that
7 Wed Feb 27 Cauchy-Binet Formula and its consequences
8 Mon Mar 4 Tracy-Widom Law I
9 Wed Mar 6 Tracy-Widom Law II
10 Mon Mar 11 Discrete Determinantal Point Processes
11 Wed Mar 13 Stochastic operators[PS3][Code]
12 Mon Mar 18 Distribution of extreme eigenvalues and condition numbers of random matrices
13 Wed Mar 20 Random Growth I
Mon Mar 25 no lectureSpring Break
Wed Mar 27 no lectureSpring Break
14 Mon Apr 1 Random Gowth II
15 Wed Apr 3 Aztec Diamond and Longest Increasing Subsequence
16 Mon Apr 8 LIS, Group Representation and Baik-Deift-Johansson theorem
17 Wed Apr 10 Determinantal Process and its application
Mon Apr 15 no lecturePatriots Day
18 Wed Apr 17 Multivariate Orthongonal Polynomials and its application
19 Mon Apr 22 Geust Lecture by Professor Mehran Kardar (MIT Physics)
20 Wed Apr 24 Free Probability I
21 Mon Apr 29 Free Probability II
22 Wed May 1 Free Probability III
23 Mon May 6 Project Presentation
24 Wed May 8 Project Presentation
25 Mon May 13 Project Presentation
26 Wed May 15 Project Presentation