CMSA/Tsinghua Math-Science Literature Lecture

Date: April 22, 2026

Time: 9:00 – 10:30 am ET

Location: via Zoom Webinar

Speaker: Nicolai Reshetikhin, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University

Title: Asymptotic representation theory

Abstract: Loosely speaking asymptotic representation theory studies representations of “large” groups or algebras. One of the first results in this direction is the study of Plancherel measures on the symmetric group $S_N$ in the limit $N\to \infty$ by Vershik and Kerov and Logan and Shepp. The first part of the talk will be an overview of results on statistics of irreducible representations in large tensor products. Then we focus on more modern results on statistics of tilting and projective modules in large tensor products and on how some problems in asymptotic representation theory are related to dimer models in statistical mechanics.

Beginning in Spring 2020, the CMSA began hosting a lecture series on literature in the mathematical sciences, with a focus on significant developments in mathematics that have influenced the discipline, and the lifetime accomplishments of significant scholars.