##Statistics Seminar##\\ Department of Mathematical Sciences ^ **DATE:**|Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020 | ^ **TIME:**|1:15pm -- 2:15pm | ^ **LOCATION:**|Zoom meeting | ^ **SPEAKER:**|Wei Yang, Binghamton University | ^ **TITLE:**|Physical Motivations for Random Matrices | \\ **Abstract** In this talk, I will try to provide some physical motivations for Random Matrices, based on a section in the notes "The matrix Dyson equation and its applications for random matrices" by László Erd˝os. A review of classical mechanic, and a short introduction of Quantum mechanics will also be given.