Random Matrix Theory Reading Group

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
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