Tom Alberts

Associate Professor of Mathematics

University of Utah

Biography

I am currently an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah. My main focus of research is in probability theory, and within that I study two-dimensional conformally invariant systems. The basic model of these are the Schramm-Loewner Evolution and its variants. I also have interests in statistical mechanics, random walks in random environments, directed polymer models, last passage percolation, and random matrix theory.

Interests

Probability Theory
Stochastic Analysis
2D Conformally Invariant Systems
Directed Polymer Models
Last Passage Percolation
Random Matrices

Education

PhD in Mathematics, 2008

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University
BSc in Mathematics, 2002

University of Alberta

Contact Information

lastname (at) math (dot) utah (dot) edu
801-585-1643
155 S 1400 E Room 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090
LCB 114

Recent Publications

Large deviations of geodesic midpoint fluctuations in last-passage percolation with general iid weights.
Tom Alberts, Riddhipratim Basu, Sean Groathouse, Xiao Shen. arXiv:2502.00942 [math.PR] . (2025).

Pole dynamics and an integral of motion for multiple SLE(0).
Tom Alberts, Nam-Gyu Kang, Nikolai Makarov, Sung-Soo Byun. Selecta Mathematica, 30, 1–77. (2024).

Conformal field theory of Gaussian free fields in a multiply connected domain.
Tom Alberts, Sung-Soo Byun, Nam-Gyu Kang. arXiv:2407.08220 [math-ph] . (2024).

Dimension Results for the Spectral Measure of the Circular Beta Ensembles.
Tom Alberts, Raoul Normand. Annals of Applied Probability, 32, 4642–4680. (2022).

The Green's function of the parabolic Anderson model and the continuum directed polymer.
Tom Alberts, Chris Janjigian, Firas Rassoul-Agha, Timo Seppalainen. arXiv:2208.11255 [math.PR] . (2022).

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