People

Faculty

Name Email @math.ubc.ca Research Interest
Omer Angel angel Random graphs, walks and other combinatorial structures, dynamical systems, percolation.
Jonathan Hermon jhermon Mixing time, cutoff phenomenon, random walks, random graphs, interacting particle systems, percolation.
Mathav Murugan mathav heat kernel estimates, potential theory, functional inequalities, Dirichlet forms, quasiconformal geometry.

Long-Term Visitors

Name Email Research Interest Dates
Mark Holmes Holmes.m AT unimelb.edu.au Random media, random walks, reinforcement processes. from January 2020

Postdoctoral Fellows

Name Email @math.ubc.ca Research Interest
Matthew Dickson dickson Spatial random graphs, percolation, large deviations.
Peter Kosenko pkosenko Random walks, hyperbolic groups, Poisson boundaries, harmonic measures.
Lucas Teyssier teyssier Mixing times, cover times, limit profiles, symmetric group, representation theory.

Graduate Students

Name Email @math.ubc.ca Research Interest
Mahla Amiri Rad mahla01 Probability theory.
Parijat Chakraborty parijat.c Interplay between geometry and probability for Markov chains.
Kai Hong Chau 1415jameschau Analysis and probability.
Dylan Chaussoy chaussoy Probability theory.
Shaul Francus shaul.francus Probability theory and theoritical computer science
Nitya Gadhiwala ngadhiwala Probability theory and optimal transport.
Daniel de la Riva Massaad delariva Probability theory, percolation, noise sensitivity theory.
Yuliang Shi yuliang Markov mixing times, random walks, percolation, self-avoiding walks.
Francesco Tosello tosello Spin glasses, machine learning, statistical mechanics, random matrix theory.
Yizhou Wang yizhouwang Analysis on fractals, Dirichlet forms.

Emeriti

Name Email @math.ubc.ca Research Interest
Martin Barlow barlow Diffusions on fractals, random walks on graphs, heat kernel estimates, cluster growth models, general theory of processes, local time, sde's, stochastic partial differential equations, measure-valued diffusions.
David Brydges db5d Statistical mechanics, renormalisation group, self-avoiding walk, branched polymers.
Priscilla (Cindy) Greenwood pgreenw Stochastic dynamics, stochastic models in biology: epidemiology, population dynamics, neuron models; inference for stochastic processes.
Edwin Perkins perkins Measure-valued diffusions, superprocesses and branching models, stochastic differential equations, stochastic pde's, nonstandard analysis, interacting particle systems, cluster growth models, applications to population models.
Gordon Slade slade Random walk, self-avoiding walk, lattice trees, percolation, lace expansion, critical phenomena in statistical mechanics, super-Brownian motion, renormalisation group.
John Walsh walsh Stochastic pde's, numerical methods in stochastic pde's, multiparameter processes, Brownian sheet, Markov processes and potential theory, general theory of processes.