Oren Louidor's Home Page

Last update: 11/20/2012

Contact information

Mathematics Department
University of California Los Angeles
520 Portola Plaza
Math Sciences Building, Room 6148
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Homepage: www.math.ucla.edu/~louidor .
Email: [last name]@math.ucla.edu
Office hours (Updated 9/28): F4:30-6:30.

I'm an adjunct assistant professor in the Mathematics Department at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Simon's Fellow. I am also part of the UCLA Probability group.

Research Interests

Analysis of probabilistic models which emerge in various sciences (physics, computer sciences, economics, chemistry) using tools from probability, combinatorics and mathematical analysis.

Educational Background

PhD in Mathematics. Courant Institute (New York University) . 2010. Distinguished Dissertation Award.
MA. in Mathematics. Courant Institute (New York University) . 2007.
MSc. in Operations Research. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology . 2006. Summa Cum Laude.
BSc. in Computer Sciences. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology . 2000. Summa Cum Laude.

Papers

[8] The Williams Bjeknes Model on Regular Trees (with Ran Tessler and Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes). Submitted (arXiv:1211.5694). arXiv.
[7] Isoperimetry in two dimensional percolation (with Marek Biskup, Eviatar Procaccia and Ron Rosenthal). Submitted (arXiv:1211.0745). arXiv.
[6] Distributional Large Deviations in the Branching Random Walk (with William Perkins). Submitted (arXiv:1206.5017). arXiv.
[5] Trapping in the Random Conductance Model (with Marek Biskup, Alex Rozinov and Alexendar Vandenberg-Rode). To appear in Journal of Statistical Physics. arXiv.
[4] Glauber dynamics for the mean field Potts model (with Paul Cuff, Jian Ding, Eyal Lubetzki, Yuval Peres and Allan Sly). Journal of Statistical Physics: Volume 149, Issue 3 (2012), Page 432-477. arXiv.
[3] Directed polymers in random environment with heavy tails (with Antonio Auffinger). Communications On Pure and Applied Mathematics, 64 183-204(2011) arXiv.
[2] Finite connections for super-critical Bernoulli bond percolation in 2D (with Dmitry Ioffe and Massimo Campanino). Anniversary issue of Mark. Proc. Rel. Fields 16, 225-266 (2010). arXiv.
[1] Fixation for distributed clustering processes (with Marcelo R. Hilario, Charles M. Newman, Leonardo T. Rolla, Scott Sheffield and Vladas Sidoravicius). Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 63 926-934 (2010) arXiv.
[0] Pinning phenomena and models of directed polymers Preprint (MSc. Thesis). PDF.

Awards and Scholarships

Simon's postdoctoral fellowship. UCLA. 2010-2013.
Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award. NYU. 2010.
MacCracken fellow. NYU. 2005-2010. (Full PhD tuition and a monthly stipend).
Member of Technion's exceptionally gifted students program . Technion. 1996-2000.
Benin award for academic achievements.. 2002
Exceptional academic achievements award (awarded 8 times). Technion. 1995-2000.
Distinguished TA prize. 1999. Technion.

Academic Visits

Oberwolfach (Oberwolfach, Germany). 9/9/2012 - 9/15/2012. Workshop on Scaling Limits in Models of Statistical Mechanics.
Technion (Haifa, Israel). 6/15/2012 - 9/15/2012. Summer Postdoctoral Fellowship.
University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (Paris, France). 1/9/2012-1/13/2012. Winter school on discrete Fourier analysis.
Center for Theoretical Study - Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic). 8/29/2011 - 9/9/2011. Summer school.
Banff International Research Station (Banff, Canada). 5/29/2011 - 6/3/2011. Program on gradient random fields.
Fields Institute (Toronto, Canada). 2/14/2011 - 2/18/2011. Workshop on interacting processes in random environments.
Microsoft Research Theory Group (Redmond, WA, USA). 7/20/2009 - 8/17/2009. Visit.
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA). 7/6/2009 - 7/15/2009. Summer school.
Technion (Haifa, Israel). 5/1/2009 - 7/4/2009. Visit.
Institut Henri Poincare (Paris, France). 9/5/2008 - 12/19/2008. Thematic trimester on interacting particle systems, statistical mechanics and probability theory.
Microsoft Research Theory Group (Redmond, WA, USA). 05/06/2008 - 07/25/2008. Internship.
IAS/PCMI (Park City, UT, USA). 7/1/2007 - 7/21/2007. Summer school.
Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge University (Cambridge, UK). 8/1/2003 - 8/30/2003. Thematic Program.

Teaching

Current:

Participating Probability Seminar (Graduate Seminar). Organizer. UCLA. Fall 2012.

Past:

Concentration of Measure (Graduate Seminar). Organizer. UCLA. Spring 2012.
Probability Theory (Graduate Course). Instructor. UCLA. Fall 2011.
Combinatorics. Instructor. UCLA. Summer 2011.
Probability for Life Sciences Students. Instructor. UCLA. Summer 2011, Winter 2011.
Calculus for Life Sciences Students. Instructor. UCLA. Spring 2011. Spring 2011..
Calculus II. Instructor. Courant (NYU). Spring 2009.
PhD qualifying exam preparatory workshop (graduate course). Instructor. Courant (NYU). Spring 2007, Spring 2008.
Calculus II. TA. Courant (NYU). Fall 2007.
Calculus for the social sciences. TA. Courant (NYU). Fall 2006.
Number theory. TA. Courant (NYU). Spring 2006.
Stochastic processes (graduate Course). TA. Technion (Israel). Fall 1999.
Convex optimization (graduate Course). TA. Technion (Israel). Spring 1999.
Introduction to probability (600 students). Head TA. Technion (Israel). Fall 1998.
Introduction to probability. TA. Fall 2003. Technion (Israel). Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Spring 1998.
Extra-curricular advanced mathematics course for high-school students. Instructor. Ort Motzkin High-school (Israel). Fall 2004, Spring 1993 - Fall 1994.
Introduction to C. TA. Technion (Israel). Fall 1996.
Operation systems structure I. TA. Technion (Israel). Fall 2001.
Operation systems structure II. TA. Technion (Israel). Spring 2002.

Conferences and workshops:

Conference on Inquiry-Based Learning - 12th Annual Legacy of R.L. Moore. Austin, TX. 16 - 18 July 2009.

Talks

Times and Places:

Oberwolfach. Workshop on Scaling Limits in Models of Statistical Mechanics. 9/14/2012.
Weizmann Institute (Israel). Probability and Functional Analysis Seminar. 8/9/2012.
Weizmann Institute (Israel). Mini Summer School in Probability. 7/24/2012.
Tel Aviv University (Israel). Probability Seminar. 7/2/102.
Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Probability Seminar. 6/29/2012.
Georgia Tech. Probability Seminar. 2/16/2012.
Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Probability Seminar. 12/13/2011.
Tel Aviv University. Probability Seminar. 12/12/2011.
UC Irvine. Probability Seminar. 10/11/2011.
Banff International Research Station. 5/31/2011.
UCLA. Probability Seminar. 4/27/2011.
University of Connecticut. Probability and Analysis Seminar. 4/1/2011.
Fields Institute. Toronto. Workshop on Directed Polymers. 2/15/2011.
Southern Californian Probability Symposium. 12/4/2010.
Michigan State University. Probability Seminar. 11/17/2010.
University of Southern California. Probability Seminar. 10/15/2010.
UCLA. Probability Seminar. 10/1/2010.
Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Probability Seminar. 6/9/2009.
Cornell University. Summer School in Probability. 7/8/2009.
MIT. Probability Seminar. 3/10/2009.
Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Probability Seminar. 11/25/2008.
MIT. Probability Seminar 11/2/2009.
Courant Inst. (NYU). Probability Seminar 11/6/2009.
University of Maryland. Probability Seminar 11/16/2009.
Stanford University. Probability Seminar 11/30/2009.
UCLA. Probability Seminar 12/2/2009.
Cambridge University. Probability Seminar 12/4/2009.
Oxford University. Probability Seminar 12/7/2009.

Slides:

Glauber dynamics for the mean field Potts model. PDF.
Directed polymers in random environment with heavy tails. PDF.
Finite connections for super-critical Bernoulli bond percolation in 2D. PDF.

Coauthors

Antonio Auffinger . Marek Biskup . Massimo Campanino . Paul Cuff . Jian Ding . Marcelo R. Hilario . Dmitry Ioffe . Eyal Lubetzki . Charles M. Newman . Yuval Peres . Will Perkins . Eviatar Procaccia . Leonardo T. Rolla . Ron Rosenthal. Alexander Rozinov. Scott Sheffield . Vladas Sidoravicius . Allan Sly . Ran Tessler. Alexander Vandenberg .

Non-academic Employment

Summer Associate. JPMorgan Chase . New York, NY. Summer 2007.
Software Team Leader. RAFEAL Advanced Defense Systems. Israel. 2004 - 2005.
Software Developer. RAFAEL Advanced Defense Systems. Israel. 2002 - 2004.
Software Developer. Israeli Defense Force - Intelligence . Israel. 2000 - 2002.
Software Developer. Zoran Corporation . Israel. 2000.