Probability People
   
  Participating Faculty 
Name E-mail @math.ubc.ca Research Interests

Omer Angel

angel Random graphs, walks and other combinatorial structures, dynamical systems, percolation.

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.

Asaf Nachmias

asafnach Percolation, random walks and statistical physics.

Edwin Perkins

perkins Measure-valued diffusions, stochastic differential equations, general theory of processes, 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.
   
  Emeriti 
Name E-mail @math.ubc.ca Research Interests

Priscilla (Cindy) Greenwood

pgreenw Stochastic dynamics, stochastic models in biology: epidemiology, population dynamics, neuron models; inference for stochastic processes.

Ulrich Haussmann

uhaus Mathematical finance and economics, filtering theory, stochastic control and optimization.

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.
   
  Long-Term Visitors 
Name E-mail Research Interests Dates

Alexander Holroyd

holroyd Discrete spatial models, including cellular automata, percolation, matching, coupling.
   
  Postdoctoral Fellows 
Name E-mail @math.ubc.ca Research Interests

Ori Gurel-Gurevich

origurel Random walks, random graphs, probabilistic algorithms, percolation.

Anna Levit

anna.levit Statistical mechanics, random graphs, percolation.

Balázs Ráth

rathb Random graphs, forest fire models, self-organized criticality, graph limits and exchangeability, random interlacements, percolation.

Daniel Valesin

valesin Interacting particle systems, random graphs, random walks on graphs.
   
  Graduate Students 
Name E-mail @math.ubc.ca Research Interests

Roland Bauerschmidt

brt Renormalisation group and related topics, including analysis of differentiable dynamical systems, multiscale decompositions, and self-avoiding walks.

Hannah Cairns

cairnsh Probability and connections between stochastic processes and classical analysis.

Yu-Ting Chen

ytchen Probability theory, Lévy processes, interacting particle systems, superprocesses, and stochastic partial differential equations.

Matthew Folz

mfolz Random walks on graphs, diffusions on metric graphs, heat kernel estimates, spectral theory of infinite graphs, Dirichlet forms, interacting particle systems.

Tyler Helmuth

jhelmt Equilibrium statistical mechanics, especially combinatorial aspects of lattice models. Critical phenomena.

Brett Kolesnik

bkolesnik Analysis, combinatorics, mathematical logic, probability.

Hongliang Lu

manu Continuous stochastic processes and stochastic differential equations, including applications to finance.

Gourab Ray

gourab Discrete probability and random planar maps.

Alex Tomberg

atomberg Probability and statistical mechanics.

Zichun Ye

yezichun Renormalisation group, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, application of probability theory in computer science and statistics.

Jing Yu

jingyu Probability theory and mathematical finance.

Qingsan Zhu

qszhu Random walks, probability on graphs, percolation.