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.
Antal A. Járai	aj276 (at) bath.ac.uk	Abelian sandpiles, uniform spanning tree, random walk, self-organized critcality, percolation, statistical physics.	Mar/12 to July/12
Grégory Miermont	gregory.miermont (at) math.u-psud.fr	Random trees, random maps and other random combinatorial structures, scaling limits, coalescence and fragmentation processes.	Nov/11 to July/12

	Postdoctoral Fellows

Name	E-mail @math.ubc.ca	Research Interests
Ori Gurel-Gurevich	origurel	Random walks, random graphs, probabilistic algorithms, percolation.
Deniz Karli	deniz.karli	Probability and harmonic analysis.
Anna Levit	anna.levit	Statistical mechanics, random graphs, percolation.
Tom Meyerovitch	tomm	Ergodic theory, dynamical systems - particularly symbolic dynamics, and probability.
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	Probability theory and mathematical physics.
Hannah Cairns	cairnsh	Probability and connections between stochastic processes and classical analysis.
Yu-Ting Chen	ytchen	Probability theory and stochastic processes.
Matthew Folz	mfolz	Random walks on graphs, heat kernel estimates.
Tyler Helmuth	jhelmt	Probability theory and mathematical physics.
Brett Kolesnik	bkolesnik	Analysis, combinatorics, mathematical logic, probability.
Yuri Mejía Miranda	yuri	Probability theory and mathematical physics.
Gourab Ray	gourab	Probability theory.
Dennis Timmers	timmers	Probability theory and statistical physics.
Alex Tomberg	atomberg	Probability and statistical mechanics.
Zichun Ye	yezichun	Probability and mathematical statistics.
Qingsan Zhu	qszhu	Probability theory and stochastic processes.