Randomness and order in the exact sciences

Randomness – from micro to macro

Monday 2 September 2013
House of the Estates
Säätytalo, Helsinki, Finland

Kurt Johansson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm


	Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. Research interests include analysis and probability and in particular random matrix theory and related models.

Title: Random matrix universality

Abstract: A well known universal probability law is the Gaussian distribution. It occurs in many apparently unrelated contexts. Random matrix theory is a source of new universal probability laws for example in spectral theory and in statistical mechanical models.

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