Welcome to the homepage of the Probability group of the University of Florence! We are part of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science 'Ulisse Dini'.
We actively participate in the Florence Data Science Center, the workshop centre Eurandom, the research programme NETWORKS (NWO, the Netherlands), and the Networks research unit (IMT Lucca).
We are very happy to work with students and young researchers, and we strive to provide a stimulating and lively research environment!
Our group works in Probability Theory, with a special focus on its applications in Statistical Mechanics and the Social Sciences.
Our research interests include Markov chains, stochastic dynamics on graphs, metastability, random graphs and complex networks, random processes in random environment, interacting particle systems, disordered systems, random media, stochastic growth models, random matrices, combinatorial structures, and integrable probability. See this page for more details.
StatPhys29, "29th International Conference on Statistical Physics", Palazzo dei Congressi, Florence, 13-18 July 2025. Local committee includes L. Avena.
"Non-equilibrium statistical physics: mathematical and physical advances", StatPhys29 satellite conference, Villa Ruspoli, Florence, 21-25 July 2025. Organising committee: L. Avena, F. Colomo, F. Essler, C. Giardinà, P. Gonçalves, T. Sasamoto, H. Spohn.
Elia Bisi joined the group as an Assistant Professor in September.
Simone Baldassarri, ex PhD student in our group and currently postdoc at Gran Sasso Science Institute, was awarded the Premio Colombaria in Mathematics and Computer Science for his PhD thesis.
Elia Bisi and his coauthors Jonas Arista and Neil O'Connell have been awarded a TU Wien 2023 Best Paper Award in Mathematics for the article Matrix Whittaker Processes.