Philadelphia Area Probability Group

 

 

 

Robin Pemantle, Faculty (Penn Math)

pemantle@math.upenn.edu

 

Research projects:

Counting partitions (with Steve Melczer and Greta Panova)

Subpolynomial trace reconstruction for deletion channels (with Nina Holden and Yuval Peres)

Invasion percolation and quenched survival on GW trees (with Marcus Michelen and Josh Rosenberg)

New results in ACSV (with Steve Melczer and Yulliy Baryshnikov)

Jian Ding, Faculty (Penn Stat)

dingjian@wharton.upenn.edu

Research interests:

Probability theory and statistical physics

Brian Rider, Faculty (Temple Math)

brian.rider@temple.edu

Research interests:

Probability, random matrices, etc.

Atilla Yilmaz, Faculty (Temple Math)

atilla.yilmaz@temple.edu

Research interests:

Probability theory and stochastic processes: limit theorems, large deviations, random walks, diffusions and directed polymers in random environments, first-passage and directed last-passage percolation; related topics in statistical mechanics, partial differential equations, stochastic optimal control, and population dynamics.

Bhaswar Bhattacharya, Faculty (Penn Stat)

bhaswar@wharton.upenn.edu

Research interests:

Random Graphs, Permutations, Graph Limits, Extremal Combinatorics.

Xiaoming Song, Faculty (Drexel Math)

xs73@drexel.edu

Research interests:

Probability theory and stochastic analysis, Numerical methods for stochastic differential equations, Mathematical finance, Stochastic partial differential equations, Data network modeling, Large deviation theory, Rough path analysis.

COMING SOON: Xin Sun, Faculty (Penn Math)

xinsun@math.columbia.edu

Research interests:

Probability theory and mathematical physics.

Zhenfu Wang, Postdoc (Penn Math)

zwang423@math.upenn.edu

Research projects:

Mean field limit for large systems of interacting particles. Analysis of PDEs. 

 

Fan Yang, Postdoc (Penn Stat)

fyang75@wharton.upenn.edu

Research interests:

Random Matrix theory and statistical physics

Somabha Mukherjee, grad student (Penn Stat)

somabha@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Projects:

Graph coloring

Large deviations in hypergraphs

Mateo Wirth, grad student (Penn Stat)

mwirth@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Projects

Level set percolation for Gaussian random fields on graphs

Jiaming Xia, grad student (Penn Math)

xiajiam@math.upenn.edu

Research Projects:

Exponential Decay of Fractal Percolation in Subcritical Regime

Stephen Gillen, Grad (Penn Math)

stepe@math.upenn.edu

Research interests:

ACSV

Weichen Zhou, grad student (Penn Math)

weichenz@math.upenn.edu

Research interests:

Random walks and Markov chains

Eric Goodman, grad student (Penn Math)

ericgood@sas.upenn.edu

Research Projects:

Extreme points of Poisson point configurations

Da Wu, grad student (math)

dawu@math.upenn.edu

Research Projects:

Linjun Li

Research Projects:

Kaitian Jin

Research Projects:

SOME LINKS TO SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES

 

Link to Penn-Temple probability seminar

Link to Penn CIS Theory seminar

Link to Penn Statistics Colloquium

Midwest Probability Colloquium, October 10-12, Evanston, IL

2020 PIMS-CRM Summer School in Probability, June 1-26, UBC