Free Entropy Theory and Random Matrices

February 24 - 28, 2025

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, February 24, 2025

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

Moderator - Ben Hayes

9:00 - 9:50
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

Around Free Entropy

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Ben Hayes (University of Virginia)

Minicourse 1.a

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Ben Hayes (University of Virginia)

Minicourse 1.a

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Moderator - Nikhil Srivastava

2:30 - 3:10
3:20 - 3:50 Break
3:50 - 4:30
Aldo Garcia Guinto (Michigan State University)

Schreier's Formula for some Free Probability Invariants

4:40 - 5:00 Student Lightning Talks
5:00 - 6:30 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Ramon van Handel (Princeton University)

Strong convergence I

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Ramon van Handel (Princeton University)

Strong convergence II

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Working Groups
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:40
2:50 - 3:20 Break
3:20 - 4:00
Tatiana Brailovskaya (Duke University)

Matrix concentration and strong convergence

4:10 - 4:50
Yoonkyeong Lee (Michigan State University)

 


Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:40
Hariharan Narayanan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

On the randomized Horn problem and the surface tension of hives

9:50 - 10:05 Break
10:05 - 10:45
Samuel Johnston (King's College London)

Horn's problem and free probability

11:10 - 12:00 Working Groups
12:00 Group Photo
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Moderator - Rolando de Santiago

2:00 - 2:40
Marwa Banna (New York University)

 

2:50 - 3:20 Break
3:20 - 4:00
March Boedihardjo (Michigan State University)

Injective norm of random tensors

4:10 - 4:50
David Gao (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))

Sofic actions on sets and graphs


Thursday, February 27, 2025

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:40
Jesse Peterson (Vanderbilt University)

 

9:50 - 10:05 Break
10:05 - 10:45
Hui Tan (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Some applications of Shlyakhtenko’s M-valued semicircular systems.

10:55 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 12:00 Working Groups
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:40
Vadim Gorin (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

The Airy-beta line ensemble

2:50 - 3:20 Break
3:20 - 4:00
4:10 - 4:50

Friday, February 28, 2025

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:40
Chi-Fang Chen (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

A new approach to 1/N expansion in random matrix theory

9:50 - 10:05 Break
10:05 - 10:45
Jorge Garza Vargas (California Institute of Technology)

A new approach to strong convergence

10:55 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 11:50
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Moderator - Brent Nelson

2:00 - 2:40
Jennifer Pi (University of California, Irvine (UCI))

A Classical Approach for Relating Free Entropic Quantities

2:50 - 3:20 Break
3:20 - 4:00
Octavio Arizmendi (Center of Investigations in Mathematics (CIMAT))

Limit Theorems in Finite Free Probability

4:10 - 4:50 Working Groups & Debrief