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"Retrospective" - some personal notes
To be held Friday, April 25, 2003
4:30 PM
111 Jadwin Hall (Fishbowl)
Refreshments will be provided - don't miss out
| Wigner introduced random matrices more than 50 years ago as a substitute to the - sometimes uninformative - approximate diagonalization of the Hamiltonian. Some of the properties of those random ensembles are very robust, i.e. largely independent of the probablity distribution, and they are found to be present in many physical problems: quantum chaos, fluctuation in disordered systems, etc. In addition, random matrices have found more far fetched applications in fields such as QCD, simplified string models as 2D quantum gravity, ... The discussion will try to avoid technicalities. |
The Undergraduate Math and Physics Colloquium organization is a group dedicated to bringing colloquia to the undergraduate and graduate math and science community that are educational, entertaining, and inspirational. By presenting cutting-edge topics by distinguished lecturers in a fashion accessible to undergraduates, we hope to enhance the Princeton experience and provide a perspective on careers in math and science.
In each of our colloquia, we include a special personal retrospective by the speaker. The retrospective is designed to allow the students to hear about what drew the speaker to his or her field of study and what keeps driving them to continue life in math and science.
For more information on our colloquia or lectures, or if you have any suggestions for lecturers you would wish to see, feel free to mail us at umpc@princeton.edu.
President and Founder: Tamar Friedmann
Vice President: Steven Miller
Professor Phillip Griffiths, "General Reflections on Mathematics and Science"
Professor Paul Steinhardt, "The Dark Side of the Universe"
Professor Andrew Wiles, "Fermat's Problems"
Professor Joseph Taylor, "Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity "
Professor Daniel Marlow, "CP Violation in B Meson Decays;
Professor Jean-Pierre Serre, "On a Theorem of Jordan"
Professor Alexander M. Polyakov, "Space-Time Games"
Professor Charles Fefferman, "The Euler Equation and Related Problems"
Crossfire: Professor Christodoulou and Professor Wilczek, "Space-Time: Theory of Gravity"
Professor Peter Meyers, "The Rare and the Merely Half Baked"
Professor John Conway, "Sphere Packing"
Professor Curtis Callan, "A String Theory Approach to Black Hole Entropy"
Professor Edward Witten, "String Theory "
Last modified on April 15, 2003.