Stochastics Group
Info about our weekly seminar, for which you can join the seminar mailing list
Research Interests
A non-exhaustive listing of stochastics related research interests housed within the Department of Mathematics. Broadly speaking, our faculty has interests in theoretical probability and statistics, statistical mechanics, applications to data science, and mathematical biology.
- Stochastic partial differential equations
- Random walk in random environment
- Directed polymers and last passage percolation
- Conformally invariant random processes
- Interacting particle systems
- Ergodic theory
- Change point methods in time series analysis
- High-dimensional data analysis
- Approximation algorithms by random sampling
- Inference for high-frequency data
- Diffusion in cellulary dynamics
- Homogenization in probabilistic models
Postdoctoral Fellows
PhD Students
- Pavel Bezdek (PhD 2016; supervisor: D. Khoshnevisan)
- Irina Grabowski (PhD 2000; supervisor: L. Horváth)
- Elisha Rae Hughes (PhD 2011; supervisor: L. Horváth)
- Brent Kerby (PhD 2016; supervisor: L. Horváth)
- Karim Khader (PhD 2010; supervisor: D. Khoshnevisan)
- Brian Knaeble (PhD 2012; supervisor: L. Horváth)
- Tony Lam (PhD 2016; supervisor: F. Rassoul-Agha)
- Shiu-Tang Li (PhD 2017; supervisor: D. Khoshnevisan)
- Pejman Mahboubi (PhD 2012 from UCLA; supervisors: D. Khoshnevisan & T. Liggett)
- Lingyan Ma (PhD 1995; supervisor: L. Horváth)
- Curtis Miller (PhD 2020; supervisor: L. Horváth)
- Sergazy Nurbavliyev (PhD 2020; supervisor: F. Rassoul-Agha)
- Ron Reeder (PhD 2011; supervisor: L. Horváth)
- Greg Rice (PhD 2015; supervisor: L. Horváth)
- Michael Purcell (PhD 2010; supervisor: D. Khoshnevisan)
- Loren Santana (PhD 2020; supervisor: T. Alberts)
- Anna Moore Schoening (PhD 2012; supervisor: F. Rassoul-Agha)
- Shang-Yuan Shiu (PhD 2010; supervisor: D. Khoshnevisan)
- Monika Serbinowska (PhD 1996; supervisor: L. Horváth)
- Weicong Su (PhD 2019; supervisor: D. Khoshnevisan)
- Conor Tillinghast (PhD 2021; supervisor: D. Khoshnevisan)
- Jia Wang (PhD 2014; supervisor: L. Horváth)
- Yiming Xu (PhD candidate; supervisors: T. Alberts and A. Narayan)
- Liang Zhang (PhD 2012; supervisor: D. Khoshnevisan)
- Hanlei Zhu (PhD 2019; supervisor: L Horváth)
Activities
Our main activity is the weekly Stochastics seminar. We also host conferences relatively frequently, either at Utah or with regional universities. Below are listings of upcoming and previous conferences.