Localization for random band matrices

Name: Localization for random band matrices
Start: 2023-04-10T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-04-10T16:00:00-04:00
Location: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

CMSA EVENTS, SEMINARS: PROBABILITY

When: April 10, 2023

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

Address: 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Speaker: Ron Peled - Tel Aviv University

**Note unusual day and time**

I will explain an approach via “an adaptive Mermin-Wagner style shift” which proves localization of N x N Gaussian random band matrices with band width W satisfying W << N^{1/4}.

Joint work with Giorgio Cipolloni, Jeffrey Schenker and Jacob Shapiro.