Oren Louidor's Home Page

Last update: 5/10/2012

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.

Probability at UCLA

UCLA Math Probability group.
Concentration of Measure participating seminar. Spring 2012.

Teaching at UCLA

Fall 2011 - Math 275A - Probability Theory (Graduate Course).
Summer 2011 - Math 180 - Combinatorics.
Summer 2011 - Math 3C - Probability for Life Sciences Students.
Spring 2011 - Math 3B - Calculus for Life Sciences Students.
Winter 2011 - Math 3C - Probability for Life Sciences Student.

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

Distributional Large Deviations in the Branching Random Walk (with William Perkins). In preparation.
Survival in The Biased Voter Model (with Ran Tessler). In preparation.
Glauber dynamics for the mean field Potts model (with Paul Cuff, Jian Ding, Eyal Lubetzki, Yuval Peres and Allan Sly). Preprent. arXiv
Trapping in the Random Conductance Model (with Marek Biskup, Alex Rozinov and Alexendar Vandenberg-Rode). Submitted. arXiv
Directed polymers in random environment with heavy tails (with Antonio Auffinger). Communications On Pure and Applied Mathematics, 64 183-204(2011) arXiv
Finite connections for supercritical Bernoulli bond percolation in 2D (with Dmitry Ioffe and Massimo Campanino). Anniversary issue of Mark. Proc. Rel. Fields 16, 225-266 (2010). arXiv
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
Pinning phenomena and models of directed polymers Preprint (MSc. Thesis). PDF

Awards and Scholarships

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

Academic Visits

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

Talks

Times and Places:

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 Semianr. 4/1/2011.
Fields Instittue. Toronto. Workshop on Directed Polymers. 2/15/2011.
Southern Californian Probability Symposiom. 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 Technlogy. Probability Seminar. 11/25/2008.
MIT. Probability Seminar 11/2/2009.
Cournat Inst. (NYU). Probability Seminar 11/6/2009.
University of Maryland. Probabilty Seminar 11/16/2009.
Stanford University. Probabilty Seminar 11/30/2009.
UCLA. Probabilty Seminar 12/2/2009.
Cambridge University. Probabilty Seminar 12/4/2009.
Oxford University. Probabilty Seminar 12/7/2009.

Slides:

Glauber dynamics for the Curie-Weiss-Potts model - mixing time analysis. PDF.
Directed polymers in random environment with heavy tails. PDF.
Finite connections for supercritical Bernoulli bond percolation in 2D. PDF.

Past Teaching

Courses:

Calc II. Instructor. Spring 2009.
PhD qualifying exam preparatory workshop (graduate course). Instructor. Spring 2007, Spring 2008.
Calc II. TA. Fall 2007.
Calculus for the social sciences. TA. Fall 2006.
Number theory. TA. Spring 2006.
Stochastic processes (graduate Course). TA. Fall 1999.
Convex optimization (graduate Course). TA. Spring 1999.
Introduction to probability (600 students). Head TA. Fall 1998.
Introduction to probability. TA. Fall 2003. Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Spring 1998.
Extra-curricular advanced mathematics course for high-school students. Instructor. Fall 2004, Spring 1993 - Fall 1994.
Introduction to C. TA. Fall 1996.
Operation systems structure I. TA. Fall 2001.
Operation systems structure II. TA. Spring 2002.

Conferences and workshops:

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

Coauthors

Antonio Auffinger . Massimo Campanino . Paul Cuff . Jian Ding . Marcelo R. Hilario . Dmitry Ioffe . Eyal Lubetzki . Charles M. Newman . Yuval Peres . Leonardo T. Rolla . Scott Sheffield . Vladas Sidoravicius . Allan Sly . Marek Biskup. Will Perkins. 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.