Random Matrix Models and their Applications

1. Symmetrized random permutations Jinho Baik and Eric M. Rains; 2. Hankel determinants as Fredholm determinants Estelle L. Basor, Yang Chen and Harold Widom; 3. Universality and scaling of zeros on symplectic manifolds Pavel Bleher, Bernard Shiffman and Steve Zelditch; 4. Z measures on partitions, Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence, and random matrix ensembles Alexei Borodin and Grigori Olshanski; 5. Phase transitions and random matrices Giovanni M. Cicuta; 6. Matrix model combinatorics: applications to folding and coloring Philippe Di Francesco; 7. Inter-relationships between orthogonal, unitary and symplectic matrix ensembles Peter J. Forrester and Eric M. Rains; 8. A note on random matrices John Harnad; 9. Orthogonal polynomials and random matrix theory Mourad E. H. Ismail; 10. Random words, Toeplitz determinants and integrable systems I, Alexander R. Its, Craig A. Tracy and Harold Widom; 11. Random permutations and the discrete Bessel kernel Kurt Johansson; 12. Solvable matrix models Vladimir Kazakov; 13. Tau function for analytic Curves I. K. Kostov, I. Krichever, M. Mineev-Vainstein, P. B. Wiegmann and A. Zabrodin; 14. Integration over angular variables for two coupled matrices G. Mahoux, M. L. Mehta and J.-M. Normand; 15. SL and Z-measures Andrei Okounkov; 16. Integrable lattices: random matrices and random permutations Pierre Van Moerbeke; 17. Some matrix integrals related to knots and links Paul Zinn-Justin.