Riemann Hilbert Techniques and Universality 
                        in Random Matrix Theory

                                   by

                             Ken McLaughlin

             JTB 120, 3:20pm  Tuesday, January 20, 1998

                                Abstract

      We will derive Plancherel - Rotach asymptotics for orthogonal
      polynomials, contrast our results with a well known wkb ansatz,
      connect orthogonal polynomials to random matrix theory and the
      universality conjecture, and then show how the new
      asymptotics for orthogonal polynomials imply the
      universality conjecture.


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