Bio: Souvik Dhara is a Schramm postdoctoral fellow affiliated jointly with Microsoft Research New England and MIT Mathematics. Souvik’s research interest lies in the intersection of probability theory, combinatorics and statistical physics, with particular focus on understanding the interplay between the structural properties of large networks and stochastic processes on them. He received his PhD in 2018 from Eindhoven University of Technology under the supervision of Remco van der Hofstad and Johan van Leeuwaarden, for the dissertation titled “Critical percolation on random graphs with prescribed degrees”.
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