AbstractIn the talk, I will give a brief review of known results on the extreme gap problems (smallest and largest gaps of the eigenvalues) of various random matrix ensembles. Then I will present our recent work about the smallest gap of the Gaussian symplectic ensemble. This completes the picture of the small gap problem of classical Gaussian β ensembles for β=1, 2, 4. Our analysis can poten...
AbstractLet M be a locally symmetric space. I'll discuss the notion of `strong convergence' of a sequence of finite dimensional unitary representations of the fundamental group of M. Once this convergence property is established for particular sequences of representations, it can be used to deduce information about the spectral gap of the Laplacian on covering spaces of M, or on vector bundles ...