Dan Shiber

Status:Ph.D Mathematics (June 2008)
Office:MS 6142
Email:dshiber@math.ucla.edu
Teaching:Math 33A, Linear Algebra and Applications

Personal

  • Born: Highland Park, Ill
  • Raised: Tel-Aviv, Israel
  • Languages spoken: English, Hebrew, Italian, French, Portuguese (learning), Spanish (learning)
  • My wife's home page

Education

  • B.S.    Mathematics, University of New Hampshire (2002)
  • M.A.    Mathematics, UCLA (2004)
  • Ph.D Mathematics, UCLA (expected June 2008)

Research - Random Matrix Theory

  • Information theory of random matrices
  • Random matrix models and enumeration of maps
  • Random matrices in finance: market risk management and portfolio optimization.

Presentations

  • Voiculescu's Asymptotic freeness of independent random matrices, Random matrix participating seminar, UCLA 2005

  • Information geometry of random matrices, Random matrix participating seminar, UCLA 2006

  • Representation of Bogoliubov actions on Gaussian space, Operator Algebras Student Seminar, UCLA 2006

  • Large N approach to free information theory, Conference on Large N Limit and Free Probability, Berkeley 2007

  • Information theory and large random matrices, Free Probability Seminar, Texas A&M 2007

  • Gaussian Actions and Bogolioubov Shifts (according to Jones and De la Harpe), Functional Analysis participating seminar, UCLA 2007

  • Random matrix models with CCR entries and potential, Fields Institute, Toronto 2007

Papers

  • Information geometry of random matrix models, math/0609372, submitted
  • Information theory of multi-matrix models, in-progress.
  • Free quasi-free states with potential, in preparation.

My new blog

My wife Ananda's blog

Dave (Engineer of Sound)

Last updated: September 2007