Scaling limits of Polynomials are fairly universal

Series
Research Horizons Seminar
Time
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 12:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Prof. Doron Lubinsky – School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology – lubinsky@math.gatech.eduhttp://people.math.gatech.edu/~lubinsky/
Organizer
Hangfan (Frank) Li

Please Note: Food and Drinks will be provided before the seminar.

In elementary calculus, we learn that (1+z/n)^n has limit exp(z) as n approaches infinity. This type of scaling limit arises in many contexts - from approximation theory to universality limits in random matrices. We discuss some examples.