Time | Program |
| Sunday, August 16
Workshop Registration |
9:00–9:45 | Monday, August 17
About the spherical ensemble (Djalil Chafaï, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL) |
9:45–10:30 | Monday, August 17
Coffee Break and Discussion |
10:30–11:15 | Monday, August 17
An equivalence between kernel regression and sequence model (Qian Lin, Tsinghua University) |
11:15–12:00 | Monday, August 17
Design-based edge-level causal inference with machine learning assisted covariate adjustment (Hanzhong Liu, Tsinghua University) |
12:00–14:30 | Monday, August 17
Lunch |
14:30–15:15 | Monday, August 17
Infinitesimal Freeness (James Mingo, Queen's University) |
15:15–16:00 | Monday, August 17
Coffee Break and Discussion |
16:00–16:45 | Monday, August 17
Geometric bias in eigenspace perturbation under random heterogeneous noise (Ke Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
16:45–17:30 | Monday, August 17
Markov Chain Comparisons and Edge Statistics for Inhomogeneous Random Matrices (Dangzheng Liu, University of Science and Technology of China) |
17:30–20:00 | Monday, August 17
Dinner and Open Discussion |
9:00–9:45 | Tuesday, August 18
Active Hypothesis Testing under Computational Budgets (Yin Xia, Fudan University) |
9:45–10:30 | Tuesday, August 18
Coffee Break and Discussion |
10:30–11:15 | Tuesday, August 18
Gumbel–Max-Based Acceleration of Attention Matrix Computation in Large Language Models (Xiaodong Yan, Xi'an Jiaotong University) |
11:15–12:00 | Tuesday, August 18
Quantifying Cross-Domain Knowledge Distillation in the Presence of Domain shift (Xiao Han, University of Science and Technology of China) |
12:00–14:30 | Tuesday, August 18
Lunch |
14:30–15:15 | Tuesday, August 18
Spectral Methods for Sparse Higher-Order Inference (Yizhe Zhu, University of Southern California) |
15:15–16:00 | Tuesday, August 18
Coffee Break and Discussion |
16:00–16:45 | Tuesday, August 18
Strong limit theorem for largest entry of large-dimensional random tensor (Xue Ding, Jilin University) |
16:45–17:30 | Tuesday, August 18
Edgeworth corrections for the spiked eigenvalues of non-Gaussian sample covariance matrices with applications (Jiang Hu, Northeast Normal University) |
17:30–20:00 | Tuesday, August 18
Dinner and Open Discussion |
9:00–9:45 | Wednesday, August 19
Approximation of Haar Matrices by Independent Normals and Their Applications (Tiefeng Jiang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) |
9:45–10:30 | Wednesday, August 19
Coffee Break and Discussion |
10:30–12:00 | Wednesday, August 19
Approximation of Haar Matrices by Independent Normals and Their Applications (Tiefeng Jiang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) |
12:00–14:30 | Wednesday, August 19
Lunch |
14:30–17:30 | Wednesday, August 19
Open Discussion |
17:30–20:00 | Wednesday, August 19
Dinner and Open Discussion |
9:00–9:45 | Thursday, August 20, 2026
Random multiplicative functions (Mo Dick Wong, University of Hong Kong) |
9:45–10:30 | Thursday, August 20, 2026
Coffee Break and Discussion |
10:30–11:15 | Thursday, August 20, 2026
Planar Orthogonal Polynomials and 2D Coulomb Gases (Meng Yang, Central South University) |
11:15–12:00 | Thursday, August 20, 2026
Spectral estimators in general linear models (Hongchang Ji, Sungkyunkwan University) |
12:00–14:30 | Thursday, August 20, 2026
Lunch |
14:30–15:15 | Thursday, August 20, 2026
Phase transition of Schott's statistic for high-dimensional heavy-tailed data (Cheng Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) |
15:15–16:00 | Thursday, August 20, 2026
Coffee Break and Discussion |
16:00–16:45 | Thursday, August 20, 2026
Periodic KPZ fixed point with general initial conditions (Yuchen Liao, University of Science and Technology of China) |
16:45–17:30 | Thursday, August 20, 2026
Strong Convergence for Multiplicative Brownian Motions on the General Linear Group (Marwa Banna, NYU Abu Dhabi, Online Talk) |
17:30–20:00 | Thursday, August 20, 2026
Dinner and Open Discussion |
9:00–9:45 | Friday, August 21
What is heat? (Seven views of the rectangular finite free heat flow) (Colin McSwiggen, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Online Talk) |
9:45–10:30 | Friday, August 21
Coffee Break and Discussion |
10:30–11:15 | Friday, August 21
Central limit theorem for the linear spectral statistics of sample covariance matrix with random population (Yiting Li, Hunan University) |
11:15–12:00 | Friday, August 21
Rank deficiency of Bernoulli random matrices for large k (Hanchao Wang, Shandong University) |
12:00–14:30 | Friday, August 21
Lunch |
14:30–15:15 | Friday, August 21
Mesoscopic Dynamics in Complex Networks: A Random Matrix Perspective (Zhenggang Wang, Southeast University) |
15:15–16:00 | Friday, August 21
Operator Norm Estimates of Lehner-type for GUEs via Concentration of Measure (Benoît Collins, Kyoto University, Online Talk) |
16:00–17:30 | Friday, August 21
Open Discussion |
17:30–20:00 | Friday, August 21
Dinner and Open Discussion |
| Saturday, August 22
Departure |
