Florence Probability group
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.
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News
Elia Bisi joined the group as an Assistant Professor in September.
Simone Baldassarri, ex PhD student in our group and currently postdoc at Leiden, 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.
Rangel Baldasso (PUC-Rio) will give a SPASS talk on 21 January 2025.
Francesca Pieroni (Roma Sapienza) will give a SPASS talk on 4 March 2025.
David Belius (UniDistance Suisse) and Clara Stegehuis (Twente) will talk at our Spring Probability Day on 11 April 2025.
Research school "PREDICT: PRobabilistic mEthoDs in Complex geomeTry", Lake Como, 16-20 June 2025. Organising committee: L. Andreis, D. Angella, L. Avena, G. Bazzoni, G. Bet, M. Zedda.
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", Satellite Conference of StatPhys25, Villa Ruspoli, Florence, 21-25 July 2025. Organising committee: L. Avena, F. Colomo, F. Essler, C. Giardinà, P. Gonçalves, T. Sasamoto, H. Spohn.