Mathematical Physics and Probability

Seminars: (click here)

Permanent Faculty (Math Dept.)

Richard Lavine
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Functional analysis, quantum mechanics, partial differential equations.
Carl Mueller
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The behavior of spatial stochastic processes, such as stochastic partial differential equations and measure-valued processes.
Shannon Starr
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Spin glasses, quantum spin systems, exchangeability.

Permanent Faculty (Physics Dept., Joint with Math)

Sarada G. Rajeev
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High energy physics, string theory, nonlinear optics, quantum information theory, Yang-Mills theory, noncommutative geometry and probability.
Yonathan Shapir
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Condensed matter physics and statistical mechanics, critical phenomena in distordered systems.

Postdoctoral Faculty

Brigitta Vermesi
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Analyticity of Brownian intersection exponents. Stochastic Loewner evolution.

Current Graduate Students

Past Graduate Students: (click here)

Recent Graduate Courses

Spring 2008 Basic Graduate Course: Probability
Instructor: Shannon Starr
Spring 2007 Topics Course: Random Matrices; Theory of Unitary, Orthogonal, and Symplectic Ensembles
Instructor: Dimitri Gioev
Fall 2006 Topics Course: Spin Glasses and the Replica Method
Instructor: Shannon Starr
Spring 2006 Topics Course: Random Matrices
Instructor: Dimitri Gioev
Fall 2005 Basic Graduate Course: Probability
Instructor: Carl Mueller
Spring 2005 Topics Course: Probability and PDE
Instructor: Carl Mueller

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