Description: The central-limit type results are universal in many random walk models: they are known as Donsker’s theorem for the classical Zd random walk, and also hold for some random walks in random environment, even when the environment is degenerate like percolation. In their proofs, the homogenization theory, which comes from PDE, plays an important role. This course will cover the follo...
Abstract:We will report on recent progress regarding the universality of the extreme eigenvalues of a large random matrix with i.i.d. entries. Beyond the radius of the celebrated circular law, we will establish a precise three-term asymptotic expansion for the largest eigenvalue (in modulus) with an optimal error term. Based on this result, we will further show that the properly normalized lar...