By the virtue of the large scope covered by Benoit Collins research papers and tied with random matrix theory, our proposal will be concerned with the following selected and important topics where random matrices play a prominent role: representation theory, quantum information theory and random graphs.
This choice is not only motivated by the intensive and growing research in these areas but also aims to bring together members of different groups from the Mathematical Institute of Marseille (I2M) such as Probability, representation theory and dynamical systems. Moreover, since quantum information theory is a central research area for both theoretical and applied scientists, our proposal will be an excellent opportunity to attract our colleagues from Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT) and from Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes. Doing so, we strongly wish to create fruitful interactions between members of different institutes of Aix-Marseille University while benefiting from the random matrix techniques developed by Benoit Collins and his collaborators to solve outstanding problems in quantum information theory.

The planned events are: