Our one-month program on New Developments in Free Probability and Applications has started. After a one-week workshop on the more theoretical side, there will be now two weeks of introductions and survey talks, as well as seminar talks, before we finish with another workshop on the (potential) applications of free probability.

Here is the schedule of talks for week 3, featuring in particular two of the three Aisenstadt Chair talks of Alice Guionnet. The first of those is intended for a general public, see also the CRM website. The third Aisenstadt Chair talk will be the opening talk of the second workshop.

WEDNESDAY March 20

Pavillon Claire-McNicoll, Université de Montréal, Room Z-220

16:15 Alice Guionnet (Aisenstadt Chair 2019)
“Free probability and Random matrices”
Free probability is the natural framework to consider matrices with size going to infinity. Since this key remark was made by Voiculescu in the nineties, these two fields have enriched each other continuously. We will discuss a few of these fruitful crossovers. This talk will only require a general mathematical background.


THURSDAY March 21

Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Université de Montréal, Room 5340

09:30 – 11:00 Mireille Capitaine
“Introduction to Outliers for Deformed Wigner Matrices”


14:30 – 15:30 Felix Leid
“Maps, Partitioned Permutations, and Free Probability”

16:00 – 17:00 Maxime Fevrier
“From conditional freeness to infinitesimal freeness”

FRIDAY March 22

Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, Université de Montréal, Room 1360

10:30 Alice Guionnet (Aisenstadt Chair 2019)
“Free probability and random matrices: Conjugate variables and the Dyson-Schwinger equations”
In this talk I will discuss some uses of integration by parts in free probability, random matrices and related topics. In particular I will show how it can be used to study the large dimension asymptotics in random matrices and tilings.