RANDOM MATRICES AND MATRIX MODELS - THE JNU LECTURES

A course of lectures was given at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, during February-March 1996. The fo llowing notes were distributed to the audience before each lecture. Th ese notes, which are sketchy and do not go in details, were meant to h elp students follow the standard literature on the subject. They are c ollected here (with the exercises!) in the hope that they might prove useful to a larger community of research workers.