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Workshop Search
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Upcoming Workshops: |
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| International Conference on Cluster Algebras and Related Topics |
| December 08, 2008 to December 20, 2008 |
| Organized By: Christof Geiss (UNAM Ciudad Universitaria), Bernhard Keller (Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7), Idun Reiten
(Nettstedskart Tilgjengelighet Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universite), Andrei Zelevinsky (Nostheastern University). |
Location: Morelia/Mexico City
This is a combination of a conference and workshop on cluster algebras and their relations to geometry, representation theory and combinatorics. The workshop will take place in Morelia (a colonial town about 250km west of Mexico-City), December 8-13, 2008 followed by the conference in Mexico-City, December 15-20.
The Research in this area developed with amazing speed after the introduction of cluster algebras around 2001 by Sergey Fomin and Andrei Zelevinsky and has attracted a variety of first rate mathematicians throughout the world, for instance Alexander Goncharov, Bernhard Keller, Maxim Kontsevich, Bernard Leclerc, Idun Reiten and Claus Michael Ringel, most of them being ICM speakers.
A good way to get an overview of the intense activities related to cluster algebras is Sergey Fomin's cluster algebras portal:
http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~fomin/cluster.html
see also section below for some discussion of the impact of cluster algebras.
This workshop website is at:
http://www.matem.unam.mx/iconcart/ |
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| Using Partnerships to Strengthen Elementary Mathematics Teacher Education |
| December 11, 2008 to December 12, 2008 |
| Organized By: Deborah Ball (University of Michigan), James Lewis (University of Nebraska), and William McCallum (University of Arizona) |
| A core problem – perhaps the central problem – for improving elementary school mathematics is the mathematical education of elementary teachers. The historic isolation of elementary teachers’ study of mathematics from their pedagogical preparation is increasingly seen to be both unnatural and ineffective. Indeed, the mathematical education of elementary teachers is inherently interdisciplinary as future teachers seek to gain the mathematical knowledge, the pedagogical knowledge and the knowledge of young students that is needed to become a successful mathematics teacher. Thus, it seems reasonable that an integrative learning approach to mathematical education of elementary teachers could yield substantial benefits. |
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| Algebraic Statistics |
| December 15, 2008 to December 18, 2008 |
| Organized By: Serkan Hosten (SFSU), Lior Pachter (UCB), Bernd Sturmfels (UCB) |
| Algebraic statistics is a maturing discipline focused on the applications of algebraic geometry and its computational
tools in the study of statistical models. Initial results in the area were related to specific problems in categorial data analysis and experimental design, however
a flurry of activity during the past several years has greatly increased the scope of the subject. Areas of interest now include graphical models, maximum likelihood estimation and
Bayesian methods. Moreover, a strong connection has developed to applications in the physical and biological sciences. The field draws its tools not only from computational
algebraic geometry but also from tropical, convex, and information geometry. Moreover, research in algebraic statistics has led to new directions in those fields. The workshop
will be a meeting point for students and leaders in the field. It will present a focused activity parallel to the 2008-2009 program on Algebraic Methods in Systems Biology and Statistics being hosted by
the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute. |
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| Connections for Women: Algebraic Geometry and Related Fields |
| January 22, 2009 to January 24, 2009 |
| Organized By: Angela Gibney (U. Pennsylvania), Brendan Hassett (Rice U.), Sándor Kovács (U. Washington), Diane Maclagan (Warwick U.) Jessica Sidman (Mt. Holyoke), and Ravi Vakil (Stanford U.) |
| This workshop is part of the semester program on Algebraic Geometry, and
additional funding will be available for participants to attend the associated
"Introductory workshop: Classical algebraic geometry," January 26-30, 2009. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Algebraic Geometry |
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| Classical Algebraic Geometry Today |
| January 26, 2009 to January 30, 2009 |
| Organized By: Lucia Caporaso (U. Rome III), Brendan Hassett (Rice U.), James McKernan (MIT), Mircea Mustata (U. Michigan), Mihnea Popa (U. Illinois - Chicago) |
| The main theme of the workshop will be to explore modern approaches to
problems originating in Classical Algebraic Geometry, and at the same time
offer an introduction to various subfields to the younger participants in
the semester-long program. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Algebraic Geometry |
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| Macaulay II day |
| February 03, 2009 |
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| Using Macaulay 2 in your research.
The goal of the workshop is to help the participants use the Macaulay 2 software in their research. The first presentation will focus on installation, set-up, and basic functions.
Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops to this session to get assistance with the software installation. The other independent talks will focus on different problems in algebraic geometry; likely topics include computing sheaf cohomology, intersection theory, and enumerative geometry. Each of these talks will also demonstrate the use of Macaulay 2. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Algebraic Geometry |
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| Modern Moduli Theory |
| February 23, 2009 to February 27, 2009 |
| Organized By: I. Coskun (U. Illinois - Chicago), S. Katz (U. Illinois), A. Marian (Institute for Advanced Study), R. Pandharipande (Princeton U.), R. Thomas (Imperial College), H.H. Tseng (U. Wisconsin), R. Vakil (Stanford U.) |
| This workshop will convene experts specializing on the minimal model program, derived categories and moduli
spaces in an informal environment to facilitate the cross-fertilization of ideas across these different fields of algebraic geometry. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Algebraic Geometry |
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| The Mathematical Association of America Sectional Meeting |
| February 28, 2009 |
| Organized By: Organized by: Dean Gooch (Santa Rosa Junior College), Tatiana Shubin (San Jose State University), Robert L. Bryant (MSRI), Steve Chiappari and Frank Farris (Santa Clara University) and Ed Keppelmann (University of Nevada Reno) |
| As one of the MAAs most entertaining sections this meeting will be no exception. All the presentations will have plenty of rich mathematics accessible to students but equally engaging for seasoned veterans. The featured speakers are Robert Bryant (The idea of Holonomy), David Bressoud - MAA President Elect (The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture), Frank Farris - Editor Mathematics Magazine (A window to the 5th dimension), Kevin McCurley - Google Research (Information Modeling with Graphs), and Helene Barcelo - MSRI (Subspace Arrangements from a Combinatorial point of view). There will also be a student poster session, a luncheon, and plenty of time for catching up with old friends and colleagues. |
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| Sage Days: Algebraic Geometry |
| March 09, 2009 to March 12, 2009 |
| Organized By: David Eisenbud (UC Berkeley), Daniel Erman (UC Berkeley), Dan Grayson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Mike Hansen (University of Washington), William Stein (University of Washington), Mike Stillman (Cornell University). |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Algebraic Geometry |
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| Combinatorial, Enumerative and Toric Geometry |
| March 23, 2009 to March 27, 2009 |
| Organized By: Michel Brion (U. de Genoble), Anders Buch (Rutgers U.), Linda Chen (Ohio State U.), William Fulton (U. Michigan), Sándor Kovács (U. Washington), Frank Sottile (Texas A&M), Harry Tamvakis (U. Maryland), and Burt Totaro (Cambridge U.) |
| This workshop will present the state of the art in combinatorial, enumerative, and toric algebraic geometry. It
will highlight this part of modern algebraic geometry within the context of the broader parent program at MSRI, and convey its scope to young researchers. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Algebraic Geometry |
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| Symposium on the Mathematical Challenges of Systems Genetics |
| April 13, 2009 to April 15, 2009 |
| Organized By: Rick Woychick (Director, The Jackson Laboratory)
Robert Bryant (Director, MSRI)
David Galas (Institute for Systems Biology)
Arnold Levine (Institute for Advanced Study)
Lee Hood (Institute for Systems Biology)
Gary Churchill (The Jackson Laboratory) |
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| Great Circles 2009 |
| April 16, 2009 to April 17, 2009 |
| Organized By: Matthias Beck (San Francisco State University), Amanda Serenevy (Riverbed Community Math Center), Sam Vandervelde (St. Lawrence University), and Kathy O'Hara (MSRI) |
| This conference will bring together experienced math circle directors and professional mathematicians along with secondary school teachers and students, with the three- fold goal of inspiring and equipping individuals to begin math circles in their communities, passing along successful math circle presentations and best practices in math circle administration, and renewing and strengthening ties among members of the existing math circle network. |
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| Economic Games and Mechanisms to Address Climate Change |
| May 04, 2009 to May 08, 2009 |
| Organized By: Prajit Dutta (Columbia), Roy Radner (NYU), Rene Carmona (Princeton), and David Zetland (UC Berkeley). |
| Themes: Carbon cap-and-trade and economic consequences; Game theory and self-enforcing treaties; Economic mechanisms and incentive for greenhouse gas emission reductions. |
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| Modern Perspectives in Applied Mathematics |
| May 18, 2009 to May 22, 2009 |
| Organized By: Andrea L. Bertozzi (University of CaliforniaLosAngeles), Panagiotis Souganidis (The University of Chicago), and Eric Vanden-Eijnden (NewYorkUniversity) |
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York
Stochastic and multi-scale modeling is becoming a main driving force in many scientific and engineering disciplines, and is a mong the most exciting areas of scientific research. Indeed, many problems in sciences involve quantifying the behavior of complex systems with a very large number of degrees of freedom. The systems interact on al arge span of scales and require to incorporate stochastic effects to account for model errors and/or disturbances from under-resolvedscales. |
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| MSRI-UP 2009: Coding Theory |
| June 15, 2009 to July 24, 2009 |
| Organized By: Ivelisse Rubio (University of Puerto Rico, Humacao), Duane Cooper (Morehouse College), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University), Herbert Medina (Loyola Marymount University), and Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Insitute). |
| The MSRI-UP is a comprehensive program for undergraduates that aims at increasing the number of students from underrepresented groups in mathematics graduate programs. MSRI-UP includes summer research opportunities, mentoring, workshops on the graduate school application process, and follow-up support. |
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| Summer Institute for the Professional Development of Middle School Teachers on Pre-Algebra (Wu Summer Institute) |
| July 06, 2009 to July 24, 2009 |
| Organized By: Hung-Hsi Wu (University of California, Berkeley), Stefanie Hassan (Little Lake City School District), Winnie Gilbert (Hacienda La Puente Unified School District), and Sunil Koswatta (Harper College). |
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| Connections for Women: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology |
| August 14, 2009 to August 15, 2009 |
| Organized By: Eleny Ionel (Stanford University), Dusa McDuff (Barnard College, Columbia University). |
| This will form a bridge between
the graduate student workshop which will just be ending and
the Introductory workshop. After some
elementary talks describing some of the main questions
in the field, there will be an extended discussion session
intended to explain basic concepts to those unfamiliar with the area.
There will also be an opportunity for young researchers in the field
to present their work, and an evening social event. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology |
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| Introductory Workshop: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology |
| August 17, 2009 to August 21, 2009 |
| Organized By: John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dusa McDuff (Barnard College, Columbia University), and Lisa Traynor (Bryn Mawr). |
| This workshop aims both to introduce
people to a broad swath of the field
and to frame its most important problems.
Each day will be organized around a
basic topic, such as how to count holomorphic
curves with boundary on a Lagrangian submanifold (which
leads to various versions of Floer theory)
or how to understand the general structure of
symplectic and contact manifolds.
There will also be an introduction to the
analytic and algebraic aspects of symplectic
field theory, and a discussion of some applications. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology |
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| Connections for Women: Tropical Geometry |
| August 21, 2009 to August 22, 2009 |
| Organized By: Alicia Dickenstein (U Buenos Aires), Eva Maria Feichtner (U Bremen) |
| The aim of this workshop is to introduce advanced graduate students and postdocs to tropical geometry. Various aspects of this multi-faceted field will be highlighted in two short-courses comprising lectures and exercise/discussion sessions as well as in research talks. The workshop will thus provide the participants with
an excellent introduction to the forthcoming events of the program. The scientific part will be complemented by a round table discussion on career issues of female mathematicians. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Tropical Geometry |
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| Introductory Workshop: Tropical Geometry |
| August 24, 2009 to August 28, 2009 |
| Organized By: Eva Maria Feichtner (U Bremen), Ilia Itenberg (U Strasbourg), chair, Grigory Mikhalkin (U Genčve), Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley) |
| This workshop is to lay the foundations for the upcoming program. Mini-courses comprising lectures and exercise/discussion sessions will cover the foundational aspects of tropical geometry as well as its connections with adjacent areas: symplectic geometry, several complex variables, algebraic geometry (in particular enumerative and computational aspects) and geometric combinatorics. The mini-courses will be augmented by research talks on current tropical develpoments to open the scene and set up new goals in the beginning semester. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Tropical Geometry |
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| Tropical Geometry in Combinatorics and Algebra |
| October 12, 2009 to October 16, 2009 |
| Organized By: Federico Ardila (San Francisco State University), David Speyer (MIT), chair, Jenia Tevelev (U Mass Amherst), Lauren Williams (Harvard) |
| This workshop will concentrate on tropical methods in Combinatorics
and Algebra. Some of the topics we expect to explore are
tropical ideas and methods in combinatorial linear algebra and in
combinatorial representation theory, as well as computational issues and applications of tropical methods in algebraic statistics. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Tropical Geometry |
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| Algebraic structures in the theory of holomorphic curves |
| November 16, 2009 to November 20, 2009 |
| Organized By: Mohammed Abouzaid ( Clay Mathematics Institute), Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University), Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto University), Eleny Ionel (Stanford University), Lenny Ng (Duke University), Paul Seidel (MIT). |
| The theory of holomorphic curves in symplectic manifolds leads
to rich algebraic structures. The study of these structures is
increasingly important both for understanding the theory itself, and
for actual computations and applications. The aim of the workshop
is to survey ongoing developments in the area. Some of the topics
of interest are: cohomological field theories; relative and tropical
Gromov-Witten invariants; Symplectic Field Theory (SFT) and connections
with string topology; theories of holomorphic curves with Lagrangian
boundary conditions, such as relative SFT, open Gromov-Witten theory,
and Fukaya categories. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology |
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| Tropical Structures in Geometry and Physics |
| November 30, 2009 to December 04, 2009 |
| Organized By: M. Gross, K. Hori, V. Kharlamov, R. Kenyon |
| One of the successes of tropical geometry is its applications to a number of different areas of recently developing mathematics. Among these are enumerative geometry, symplectic field theory, mirror symmetry, dimer models/random surfaces, amoebas and algas, instantons, cluster varieties, and tropical compactifications. While these fields appear quite diverse, we believe the common meeting ground of tropical geometry will provide a basis for fruitful interactions between participants. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Tropical Geometry |
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| Connections for Women: Homology Theories of Knots and Links |
| January 14, 2010 to January 15, 2010 |
| Organized By: Elisenda Grigsby, (Columbia), Olga Plamenevskaya (SUNY/Stonybrook), and Katrin Wehrheim (MIT) |
| This 2-day workshop will serve as a prelude to the introductory workshop for the semester-long program on homology theories of knots and links. Survey talks in the mornings will position the work in Khovanov and Heegaard Floer homology in a broader context, focusing on:
1) applications to classical questions in low-dimensional topology, and
2) connections to contact and symplectic topology.
Research talks in the afternoons will highlight the range of current activity in the field. We plan a format of no more than four talks each day to allow ample time for presentation opportunities for younger researchers and formal and informal discussions. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Homology Theories of Knots and Links |
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| Introductory Workshop: Homology Theories of Knots and Links |
| January 18, 2010 to January 22, 2010 |
| Organized By: Dylan Thurston (Columbia university) |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Homology Theories of Knots and Links |
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| Research workshop: Homology Theories of Knots and Links |
| March 15, 2010 to March 19, 2010 |
| Organized By: Peter S. Ozsváth (Columbia University) |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Homology Theories of Knots and Links |
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| Symplectic and contact topology and dynamics: puzzles and horizons |
| March 21, 2010 to March 26, 2010 |
| Organized By: Paul Biran (Tel Aviv University), John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology), Helmut Hofer (Courant Institute), Dusa McDuff *(Barnard College), Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv University), |
| This workshop will focus on recent progress in central problems in
symplectic and contact topology and Hamiltonian dynamics such as
rigidity of Lagrangian submanifolds, algebra/topology/geometry of
symplectomorphism and contactomorphism groups, exotic symplectic and
contact structures, and existence of
periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems and Reeb flows.
It will explain applications of the "large machines"
such as Floer Theory, Symplectic Field Theory and Fukaya categories,
showing where these machines do not yet provide satisfactory
answers. Special attention will also be paid to articulating
new problems and
directions, as well as to explaining
interactions between symplectic and contact
topology and other fields. |
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| Parent Program(s): |
| Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology |
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| Connections for Women: Inverse Problems and Applications |
| August 19, 2010 to August 20, 2010 |
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| Introductory Workshop on Inverse Problems and Applications |
| August 23, 2010 to August 27, 2010 |
| Organized By: Liliana Borcea (Rice University), Peter Kuchment (Texas A&M University), Gunther Uhlmann* (University of Washington), and Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley) |
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| Random Matrix Theory and Its Applications. I. |
| September 13, 2010 to September 17, 2010 |
| Organized By: Jinho Baik (University of Michigan), Percy Deift (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Alexander Its (IUPUI), Pierre van Moerbeke (Universite Catholique de Louvain and Brandeis University), Craig A. Tracy* (UC Davis) |
| In the spring of 1999, MSRI hosted a very successful and influential one-semester program on RMT and its applications. At the workshops during the semester, there was a sense of excitement as brand new and very recent results were reported. The goal of the 2010 Program is to showcase the many remarkable developments that have taken place since 1999 and to spur further developments in RMT and Related areas of interacting particle systems (IPS) and integrable systems (IS) as well as to highlight various applications of RMT. |
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| Connections for Women: An Introduction to Random Matrices |
| September 20, 2010 to September 21, 2010 |
| Organized By: Estelle Basor (American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto), Alice Guionnet * (ENS Lyon), Irina Nenciu (UIC, Chicago) |
| Topics covered in this workshop will include fundamental problems in random matrices, including universality questions and connections to physics, free probability, Riemann Hilbert problems and applications to other areas of mathematics such as number theory and numerical analysis. |
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| Random Matrix Theory and its Applications II |
| December 06, 2010 to December 10, 2010 |
| Organized By: Alexei Borodin (Caltech), Percy Deift (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), Alice Guionnet (ENS, Lyon), Kenneth McLaughlin (University of Arizona), and Craig A.Tracy (UC Davis) |
| Random matrix theory (RMT) was introduced into the theoretical physics community by Eugene Wignerinthe 1950s as a model for the scattering resonances of neutrons off large nuclei. In multivariate statistics, random matrix models were introduced in the late 1920s by John Wishart and subsequently developed by Anderson, James and others. Since these early beginnings RMT has found an extraordinary variety of mathematical, physical and engineering applications that, to name some, include number theory, stochastic growth models, tiling problems and wireless communications. |
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