PrerequisiteAlgebraic TopologyAbstractThis course will discuss configuration spaces from the views of homotopy theory. The course will consist of three parts. In the first part, we will discuss the motivations of studying configuration spaces in homotopy theory, including the configuration space models for iterated loop spaces, little cube operads, and Hopf invariants. In the second part of the...
Description: This course will give a brief introduction to random matrix theory. Some topics we plan to cover are: Wigner semicircle law, the moment method, the resolvent method, invariant ensembles, Wigner matrices, sample covariance matrices, bulk universality, edge universality, rigidity of eigenvalues, Dyson Brownian motion, Tracy-Widom law, and free probability.Prerequisite:Probability, S...