Hi: There is a math colloquium today at 3:30 PM in MSCS 101: Speaker: Professor Hoi H. Nguyen of Ohio State University Title: On roots of random polynomials See abstract below. Hope to see you there, David Wright Abstract: The study of roots of random polynomials is an active area of research that has been ongoing since the early 1900s. In this talk, we will survey some recent developments, focusing on robust frameworks to establish various universality properties. These include the local correlation of roots, the variance of the number of real roots, concentration phenomenon, and CLT fluctuation of the number of real roots. The talk is partly based on joint works with Y. Do, D. Lubinsky, O. Nguyen, I. Pritsker, and V. Vu.