Random Matrices and Operators

Random matrices and operators represent a paradigm for many correlated systems which arise in physics, computer science, pure and applied mathematics. The efforts to understand random matrix statistics are of two types, integrability and universality. While the ubiquity of random matrices in natural sciences is still a mystery, in spectacular breakthroughs in the past twenty years, new robust analytic methods have allowed the extension of local random matrix statistics to a wide range of probabilistic models. More recently new integrable statistics have been proved thanks to special functions, branching techniques or supersymmetry and have attracted considerable attention.

The main goal of this workshop will be to confront all these remarkable techniques to make progress on problems exhibiting random matrix statistics, including Random Schrodinger operators, non-Hermitian ensembles, Coulomb gases, log-correlated fields and branching processes.

April 13, 2026
09:00 — 09:20
Registration & Welcome
09:20 — 10:20
10:20 — 10:50
Coffee Break
11:50 — 13:20
Lunch Break
14:20 — 15:20
15:20 — 15:50
Coffee Break
15:50 — 16:50
April 14, 2026
10:00 — 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 — 11:30
12:30 — 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 — 15:00
15:00 — 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 — 16:30
Horng-Tzer Yau and Jiaoyang Huang (UPenn, Philadelphia)
Ramanujan Property and Edge Universality of Random Regular Graphs
19:00 — 22:00
Conference Dinner
April 15, 2026
09:00 — 10:00
10:00 — 10:30
Coffee Break
12:30 — 17:00
Free Afternoon
April 16, 2026
09:00 — 10:00
10:00 — 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 — 11:30
12:30 — 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 — 15:00
Mariya Shcherbina (Institute for Low Temperature Physics)
Characteristic polynomials of non-Hermitian random band matrices
15:00 — 15:30
Coffee Break
April 17, 2026
09:00 — 10:00
Domokos Szasz (BME, Budapest)
Fourier law from Hamiltonian dynamics
10:00 — 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 — 11:30
Jonas Lührmann (U Cologne)
Nonlinear Dynamics of Kinks and Vortices
12:30 — 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 — 15:00
15:00 — 15:30
Coffee Break

Organizers

Name Affiliation
Nathanael Berestycki University of Vienna
Paul Bourgade Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Giorgio Cipolloni University of Rome Tor Vergata

Attendees

Name Affiliation
Johannes Alt University of Bonn
Zhigang Bao The University of Hong Kong
Gerard Ben Arous New York University
Lucas Benigni University of Montreal
Thomas Buc–d’Alché University of Strasbourg
Andrew Campbell Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Noemi Cuppone King's College London
Raphael Ducatez Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1
Charlie Dworaczek Guera KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Markus Ebke Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
László Erdős Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Yan Fyodorov King's College London
Lydia Giacomin King's College London
David Hasler University of Jena
Joscha Henheik University of Geneva
Ella Hiesmayr ENS de Lyon
Jiaoyang Huang University of Pennsylvania
Hong Chang Ji Sungkyunkwan University
Ahmet Keles New York University
Antti Knowles University of Geneva
Justin Ko Syracuse University
Oleksii Kolupaiev Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Anouar Kouraich Technical University of Munich
Torben Kruger Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Gaultier Lambert KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Jaehun Lee Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Marius Lemm University of Tübingen
Alex Little ENS de Lyon
Jonas Lührmann University of Cologne
Davide Macera Universität Bonn
Benjamin McKenna Georgia Institute of Technology
Mohammed Osman Queen Mary University of London
Michel Pain Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
Elliot Paquette McGill University
Felix Parraud Queen's University
Luke Peilen Temple University
Jana Reker ENS de Lyon
David Renfrew SUNY Binghamton
Volodymyr Riabov Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Manfred Salmhofer Heidelberg University
Benjamin Schlein University of Zurich
Anna Liza Schonlau Universität Bonn
Robert Seiringer Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Mariya Shcherbina Institute for Low Temperature Physics
Jan Philip Solovej University of Copenhagen
Herbert Spohn Technical University of Munich
David Noah Stamm University of Paderborn
Domokos Szasz Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Sarah Timhadjelt Université Grenoble Alpes
Balint Toth HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
Yuanyuan Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fan Yang Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University
Horng-Tzer Yau Harvard University
Jun Yin University of California, Los Angeles
Ofer Zeitouni Weizmann Institute of Science
Albert Zhang New York University
Preview of Balint Toth - Diffusion in the random Lorentz gas
Balint Toth (RENYI): Diffusion in the random Lorentz gas
April 13, 2026 09:20 — 10:20
Preview of Marius Lemm - On transport in disordered quantum many-body models
Marius Lemm (U Tübingen): On transport in disordered quantum many-body models
April 13, 2026 14:20 — 15:20
Preview of Manfred Salmhofer - Flow equations and convergent expansions in quantum field theory
Manfred Salmhofer (U Heidelberg): Flow equations and convergent expansions in quantum field theory
April 13, 2026 15:50 — 16:50
Preview of Horng-Tzer Yau & Jiaoyang Huang - Ramanujan Property and Edge Universality of Random Regular Graphs
Jiaoyang Huang (UPenn, Philadelphia): Ramanujan Property and Edge Universality of Random Regular Graphs
April 14, 2026 15:30 — 16:30
Preview of Gaultier Lambert - Mesoscopic CLT for β-ensembles at intermediary temperature
Gaultier Lambert (KTH, Stockholm): Mesoscopic CLT for β-ensembles at intermediary temperature
April 15, 2026 09:00 — 10:00
Preview of Torben Kruger- Classifying spectral power law singularities for structured random matrices
Torben Kruger (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg): Classifying spectral power law singularities for structured random matrices
April 15, 2026 10:30 — 11:30
Preview of Yuanyuan Xu - Central limit theorems with logarithmic singularities for the spherical ensemble and beyond
Yuanyuan Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing): Central limit theorems with logarithmic singularities for the spherical ensemble and beyond
April 16, 2026 10:30 — 11:30
Preview of Mohammed Osman - Mesoscopic Statistics for a Model of Random Quantum Graphs
Mohammed Osman (QMU London): Mesoscopic Statistics for a Model of Random Quantum Graphs
April 16, 2026 11:30 — 12:30
At a glance
Type:
Workshop
When:
April 13, 2026 — April 17, 2026
Where:
ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall
Organizer(s):
Nathanael Berestycki (U of Vienna)
Paul Bourgade (CIMS, New York)
Giorgio Cipolloni (U Tor Vergata, Rome)