Weekly on Fridays at 11:00-12:00 in Fry 2.04
Organisers: Ayesha Irfan, George Snape
Spring 2026
- February 13th
*No reading group, additional Mathematical Physics seminar* - January 30th
Speaker: Mariya Shcherbina
Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow
Lecture Series: Supersymmetric method and non-Hermitian random matrices
Title: Supersymmetric approach in modern mathematics IV - January 23rd
Speaker: Mariya Shcherbina
Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow
Lecture Series: Supersymmetric method and non-Hermitian random matrices
Title: Supersymmetric approach in modern mathematics III - January 16th
Speaker: Mariya Shcherbina
Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow
Lecture Series: Supersymmetric method and non-Hermitian random matrices
Title: Supersymmetric approach in modern mathematics II - January 9th
Speaker: Mariya Shcherbina
Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow
Lecture Series: Supersymmetric method and non-Hermitian random matrices
Title: Supersymmetric approach in modern mathematics I
Autumn 2025
- November 28th
Speaker: Ayesha Irfan
Title: On the derivatives of characteristic polynomials - November 21st
Speaker: Mark Crumpton
Title: Supersymmetric Approach To Studying Eigenvector Statistics - November 14th
Speaker: Sacha Grover
Title: Magic Squares, Characteristic Polynomials and the Riemann Zeta Function - November 7th
Speaker: Christopher Atherfold
Title: The secular coefficients of the CUE and connections to number theory - October 24th
Speaker: Marco Bertola
Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow
Lecture Series: Orthogonality, Riemann Surfaces, and Asymptotics
Title: Orthogonal Polynomials and Painlevé-type equations II - October 17th
Speaker: Marco Bertola
Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow
Lecture Series: Orthogonality, Riemann Surfaces, and Asymptotics
Title: Orthogonal Polynomials and Painlevé-type equations I - October 10th
Speaker: Amari Jaconelli
Title: A Riemann-Hilbert Approach to the Generating Functions of Point Processes - October 3rd
Speaker: Marco Bertola
Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow
Lecture Series: Orthogonality, Riemann Surfaces, and Asymptotics
Title: Minimal Energy on Riemann surfaces
Spring 2025
- May 23rd
Speaker: George Snape
Topic: Meckes’ ‘The Random Matrix Theory of the Classical Compact Groups’, Sections 3.3–3.4 - May 16th
Speaker: Christopher Atherfold
Topic: Meckes’ ‘The Random Matrix Theory of the Classical Compact Groups’, Sections 3.1–3.2 - April 4th
Speaker: Sacha Grover
Topic: Meckes’ ‘The Random Matrix Theory of the Classical Compact Groups’, Sections 2.1–2.2 - February 28th
Speaker: Amari Jaconelli
Topic: Meckes’ ‘The Random Matrix Theory of the Classical Compact Groups’, Section 1.3 - February 21st
Speaker: Ayesha Irfan
Topic: Meckes’ ‘The Random Matrix Theory of the Classical Compact Groups’, Sections 1.1–1.2 - January 24th
Speaker: Henry Taylor
Title: From Tridiagonal Matrices to Spectral Densities: A Journey Through My PhD - January 17th
Speaker: Christopher Atherfold
Title: The Fyodorov-Hiary-Keating Conjectures
