Patrick Waters thesis defense, April 10, 2015.
- Random matrices, illustrated
- Introduction and motivation
- Topological expansion of the partition function
- Orthogonal polynomials and string equations
- Valence independent solution to the string equations
- KP equations and RMT
- Solitons and recurrence coefficients
- RH method for computing generating functions
- Root-endpoint collision animations
- Modified EMcLP type formulas
