{"id":301,"date":"2012-04-12T09:17:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T09:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lptms.u-psud.fr\/satya-majumdar\/?page_id=301"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:47:48","slug":"reviews-and-lectures-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lptms.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/satya-majumdar\/reviews-and-lectures-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Books, Reviews and Lectures Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Books:<\/h2>\n<p>(1) S. N. Majumdar and G. Schehr, \u00ab\u00a0 Statistics of extremes and records in random sequences\u00a0\u00bb (Oxford University Press) (2024).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/statistics-of-extremes-and-records-in-random-sequences-9780198797333?cc=fr&amp;lang=en&amp;\"> link<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Reviews\u00a0<strong>and book chapters:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>(1) S.N. Majumdar, \u00ab\u00a0Persistence in Nonequilibrium Systems\u00a0\u00bb, Current Science, 77, 370 (1999)<br \/>\n<a title=\"Persistence in Nonequilibrium Systems\" href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/cond-mat\/9907407\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/cond-mat\/9907407<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(2) S.N. Majumdar, \u00ab\u00a0Brownian Functionals in Physics and Computer Science\u00a0\u00bb,<br \/>\nCurrent Science, 89, 2076 (2005) <a title=\"Brownian Functionals in Physics and Computer Science\" href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/cond-mat\/0510064\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/cond-mat\/0510064<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(3) S.N. Majumdar, \u00ab\u00a0Random Matrices, the Ulam Problem, Directed Polymers &amp; Growth Models,\u00a0 and Sequence Matching\u00a0\u00bb, Les Houches lecture notes for the summer school on \u00ab\u00a0Complex Systems\u00a0\u00bb (Les Houches, July 2006, organized by M. M\\`ezard and J-P. Bouchaud) <a title=\"Random Matrices, the Ulam Problem, Directed Polymers &amp; Growth Models, and Sequence Matching\" href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/cond-mat\/0701193\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/cond-mat\/0701193<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(4) S.N. Majumdar, \u00ab\u00a0Real-space Condensation in Stochastic Mass Transport Models\u00a0\u00bb,<br \/>\nLes Houches lecture notes for the summer school on \u00ab\u00a0Exact Methods in Low-dimensional Statistical Physics and Quantum Computing\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\n(Les Houches, July 2008), ed. by J. Jacobsen, S. Ouvry, V. Pasquier, D. Serban and L.F. Cugliandolo and published by the Oxford University Press (2010). <a title=\"Real-space Condensation in Stochastic Mass Transport Models\" href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0904.4097\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0904.4097<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(5) S.N. Majumdar, \u00ab\u00a0Universal First-passage Properties of Discrete-time Random Walks and Levy Flights on a Line: Statistics of the Global Maximum and Records\u00a0\u00bb,<br \/>\nLecture notes for the summer school \u00ab\u00a0Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics: XII\u00a0\u00bb held at Leuven, Belgium (2009) and published in Physica A, 389, 4299 (2010). <a title=\"Universal First-passage Properties of Discrete-time Random Walks and Levy Flights on a Line: Statistics of the Global Maximum and Records\" href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0912.2586\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0912.2586<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(6) S.N. Majumdar, \u00ab\u00a0Extreme Eigenvalues of Wishart Matrices: Application to Entangled Bipartite System\u00a0\u00bb, a chapter in the book \u00a0\u00bb Handbook of Random Matrix Theory\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\n(ed. by G. Akemann, J. Baik and P. Di Francesco and forwarded by F.J. Dyson), published by Oxford University Press (2011). <a title=\"Extreme Eigenvalues of Wishart Matrices: Application to Entangled Bipartite System\" href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1005.4515\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1005.4515<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(7) A. J. Bray, S.N. Majumdar, and G. Schehr, \u00ab\u00a0 Persistence and first-passage properties in nonequilibrium systems\u00a0\u00bb, Adv. in Phys. v-62, 225-361 (2013). <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1304.1195.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(8) G. Schehr and S.N. Majumdar, \u00ab\u00a0Exact record and order statistics of random walks via<br \/>\nfirst-passage ideas\u00a0\u00bb, arXiv: 1305.0639, in the special volume \u00ab\u00a0First-Passage Phenomena and Their Applications\u00a0\u00bb, Eds. R. Metzler, G. Oshanin, S. Redner. World Scientific (2013). <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1305.0639.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(9) S.N. Majumdar and G. Schehr,\u00a0 \u00ab\u00a0Top eigenvalue of a random matrix: large deviations and third order phase transition\u00a0\u00bb, J. Stat. Mech. P01012 (2014). [review based on my <strong>plenary<\/strong> talk at STATPHYS-25 (Seoul, South Korea, July, 2013). <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1311.0580.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(10) C. Godreche, S.N. Majumdar and G. Schehr, \u00ab\u00a0Record statistics of a strongly correlated time-series: Random Walks and Levy Flights\u00a0\u00bb, topical review\u00a0 in J. Phys. A: Math. Theor.\u00a0 50,\u00a0 333001 (2017) .\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1702.00586.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(11) D. S. Dean, P. Le Doussal, S. N. Majumdar, and G. Schehr, \u00ab\u00a0Noninteracting fermions in a trap and random matrix theory\u00a0\u00bb, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. v-52, 144006 (2019).\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1810.12583.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<li>(12) S.N. Majumdar and G. Schehr, \u00ab\u00a0Large deviations\u00a0\u00bb, a brief pedagogical review (written for ICTS newsletter 2017, volume 3, issue 2).\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1711.07571.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<li>(13) S. N. Majumdar, A. Pal, G. Schehr, \u00ab\u00a0Extreme value statistics of correlated random variables: A pedagogical review\u00a0\u00bb, Phys. Rep. v-840, 1 (2020).\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1910.10667.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<li>(14) M. R. Evans, S. N. Majumdar, G. Schehr, \u00ab\u00a0Stochastic Resetting and Applications\u00a0\u00bb, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 53 193001 (2020)\u00a0 (topical review). <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1910.07993\">PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<li>(15) S.N. Majumdar, G. Schehr, \u00ab\u00a0Number of distinct and common sites visited by <span id=\"MathJax-Element-404-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-2913\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-2914\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-2915\" class=\"mi\">N<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> independent random walkers\u00a0\u00bb, a book chapter in \u00ab\u00a0The Mathematics of Movement: an Interdisciplinary<br \/>\nApproach to Mutual Challenges in Animal Ecology and Cell Biology\u00a0\u00bb edited by<br \/>\nL. Giuggioli and P. Maini (Cambridge University press, 2025)\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2405.20955\">PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<li>(16) A. K. Hartmann, S. N. Majumdar, G. Schehr, \u00ab\u00a0The Distribution of the Maximum of Independent<br \/>\nResetting Brownian Motions\u00a0\u00bb, pages 357-389, in the book \u00ab\u00a0Target Search Problems\u00a0\u00bb,<br \/>\nEds. D. Grebenkov, R. Metzler, and G. Oshanin (Springer Book, 2024).\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2309.17432\">PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Lecture Notes:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>(1) lecture notes for summer school \u00ab\u00a0The Principles of the Dynamics of Non-Equilibrium Systems\u00a0\u00bb held at Isaac Newton Institute (2006)<br \/>\nlink to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newton.ac.uk\/programmes\/PDS\/seminars\/032811301.html\">http:\/\/www.newton.ac.uk\/programmes\/PDS\/seminars\/032811301.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newton.ac.uk\/programmes\/PDS\/seminars\/032911301.html\"> http:\/\/www.newton.ac.uk\/programmes\/PDS\/seminars\/032911301.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newton.ac.uk\/programmes\/PDS\/seminars\/033011301.html\"> http:\/\/www.newton.ac.uk\/programmes\/PDS\/seminars\/033011301.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(2) lecture notes for summer school \u00ab\u00a0Complex Systems\u00a0\u00bb (Les Houches, 2006) on the \u00ab\u00a0Tracy-Widom distribution in random matrices and applications\u00a0\u00bb <a title=\"Tracy-Widom distribution in random matrices and applications\" href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/cond-mat\/0701193\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/cond-mat\/0701193<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(3) lecture notes for the Beg-Rohu summer school \u00ab\u00a0Manifolds in random media, random matrices and extreme value statistics\u00a0\u00bb (2008) <a title=\"Manifolds in random media, random matrices and extreme value statistics\" href=\"http:\/\/ipht.cea.fr\/Meetings\/BegRohu2008\/notes.html\">http:\/\/ipht.cea.fr\/Meetings\/BegRohu2008\/notes.html (the pdf file of majumdar)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0(4) lecture notes for summer school \u00ab\u00a0Exact Methods in Low-dimensional statistical physics and quantum computing\u00a0\u00bb (Les Houches, 2008) on \u00ab\u00a0Real-space Condensation in Mass Transport Models\u00a0\u00bb <a title=\"Exact Methods in Low-dimensional statistical physics and quantum computing\" href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0904.4097\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0904.4097<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(5) lecture notes for summer school \u00ab\u00a0Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics XII\u00a0\u00bb (Leuven, Belgium) on \u00ab\u00a0Brownian Functionals and their Applications: From Records to Comets\u00a0\u00bb<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/cond-mat\/0510064\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/cond-mat\/0510064<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0912.2586\">http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0912.2586<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(6) Subhramanyam Chandrasekhar lectures as part of the international conference \u00ab\u00a0Random Matrix theory and applications\u00a0\u00bb, held at International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore, India, January, 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icts.res.in\/program\/all\/details\/287\/\">http:\/\/www.icts.res.in\/program\/all\/details\/287\/<\/a> (get the pdf files of three\u00a0 lectures by majumdar<strong>)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(7) Lecture notes on \u00ab\u00a0Extreme Value Statistics of Correlated Random Variables\u00a0\u00bb based on 2 lectures given at the Galileo Galilei Institute (Florence, Italy, May 2014)) during the workshop on \u00ab\u00a0Advances in Nonequilibrium Systems\u00a0\u00bb (notes were taken\u00a0 by Arnab Pal). <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1406.6768.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books: (1) S. N. Majumdar and G. Schehr, \u00ab\u00a0 Statistics of extremes and records in random sequences\u00a0\u00bb (Oxford University Press) (2024).\u00a0 link Reviews\u00a0and book chapters: (1) S.N. Majumdar, \u00ab\u00a0Persistence in Nonequilibrium Systems\u00a0\u00bb, Current Science, 77, 370 (1999) http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/cond-mat\/9907407 (2) S.N. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lptms.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/satya-majumdar\/reviews-and-lectures-notes\/\">Continuer la lecture <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-301","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lptms.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/satya-majumdar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lptms.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/satya-majumdar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lptms.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/satya-majumdar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lptms.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/satya-majumdar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lptms.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/satya-majumdar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.lptms.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/satya-majumdar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/www.lptms.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/satya-majumdar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/301\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lptms.universite-paris-saclay.fr\/satya-majumdar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}