Free Entropy Theory and Random Matrices - IPAM

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

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Moderator - Brent Nelson
09:00-09:50
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)
Invitation to 1-bounded entropy theory- Minicourse
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Ben Hayes (University of Virginia)
Invitation to 1-bounded entropy theory - Minicourse

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Moderator - Nikhil Srivastava
14:30-15:10
Benoit Collins (Kyoto University)
operator norm estimates for sums of tensor-valued random Haar unitaries
15:20-15:50
Break
15:50-16:30
Jennifer Pi (University of California, Irvine (UCI))
A Classical Approach for Relating Free Entropic Quantities
16:40-17:00
Lightning Poster Round
17:00-18:30
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Morning Session

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
Moderator - Ben Hayes
09:00-09:50
Ramon van Handel (Princeton University)
Strong convergence I - Minicourse
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Ramon van Handel (Princeton University)
Strong convergence II - Minicourse
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:30
Working Groups

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Moderator - Thomas Sinclair
14:00-14:40
Ping Zhong (University of Houston)
Limiting Eigenvalue Distribution and Outliers of Deformed Single Ring Random Matrices
14:50-15:20
Break
15:20-16:00
Tatiana Brailovskaya (Duke University)
Matrix concentration and strong convergence
16:10-16:50
Yoonkyeong Lee (Michigan State University)
On conjugate systems with respect to completely positive maps

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Morning Session

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
Moderator - Rolando de Santiago
09:00-09:40
Hariharan Narayanan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
On the randomized Horn problem and the surface tension of hives
09:50-10:05
Break
10:05-10:45
Samuel Johnston (King's College London)
Horn's problem and free probability
11:10-12:00
Working Groups

Afternoon Session

12:00-12:00
Group Photo
12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Moderator - Rolando de Santiago
14:00-14:40
Marwa Banna (New York University Abu Dhabi)
Strong Convergence for Multiplicative Brownian Motions on the General Linear Group
14:50-15:20
Break
15:20-16:00
March Boedihardjo (Michigan State University)
Injective norm of random tensors
16:10-16:50
David Gao (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Sofic actions on sets and graphs

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Morning Session

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
Moderator - Brent Nelson
09:00-09:40
Jesse Peterson (Vanderbilt University)
A hierarchy of Haagerup-type approximation properties
09:50-10:05
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Moderator - Nikhil Srivastava
14:00-14:40
Vadim Gorin (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
The Airy-beta line ensemble
14:50-15:20
Break
15:20-16:00
Theo McKenzie (Stanford University)
Precise Eigenvalue Location for Random Regular Graphs
16:10-16:50
Ella Hiesmayr (UMPA ENS Lyon)
Spectral large deviations of sparse random matrices

Friday, February 28, 2025

Morning Session

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
Moderator - Rolando de Santiago
09:00-09:40
Chi-Fang Chen (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
A new approach to 1/N expansion in random matrix theory
09:50-10:05
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
Félix Parraud (Queen's University)
The spectrum of tensor of random and deterministic matrices

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Moderator - Ben Hayes
14:00-14:40
Aldo Garcia Guinto (Michigan State University)
Schreier's Formula for some Free Probability Invariants
14:50-15:20
Break
15:20-16:00
Octavio Arizmendi (Center of Investigations in Mathematics (CIMAT))
Limit Theorems in Finite Free Probability
16:10-16:50
Working Groups & Debrief
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