Mo Dick Wong
Welcome to my homepage. I am an assistant professor in the probability group at Durham University.
Previously I was a postdoc working on the LogCoRM programme with Prof. Jon Keating at the Mathematical Institute, the University of Oxford. I completed my PhD studies at the Cambridge Centre for Analysis (CCA) under the supervision of Prof. Nathanaël Berestycki.
Short CV
2021 - Current: Assistant professor, Durham University
2019 - 2021: Postdoctoral research assistant, University of Oxford
2015 - 2019: PhD in Pure Mathematics, University of Cambridge
2018 - 2019: Visiting research assistant, University of Vienna
2014 - 2015: Master of Advanced Studies in Mathematics, University of Cambridge
2011 - 2014: Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong
Full CV is available upon request.
Research Interest
I am primarily interested in probability and its intersection with other branches of mathematics, currently focusing on multifractal measures/processes and various other objects in random matrices, random geometry and probablistic number theory. I am also interested in mathematical statistics and theoretical computer science.
Preprints / Publications
13. Small deviations of Gaussian multiplicative chaos and the free energy of the two-dimensional massless Sinh–Gordon model (with Nikolay Barashkov and Joona Oikarinen). arXiv preprint.
12. Martingale central limit theorem for random multiplicative functions (with Ofir Gorodetsky). arXiv preprint, submitted. [Codes]
11. A short proof of Helson's conjecture (with Ofir Gorodetsky). arXiv preprint, submitted.
10. Weyl's law in Liouville quantum gravity (with Nathanaël Berestycki). arXiv preprint, submitted.
9. On Erdős sums of almost primes (with Ofir Gorodetsky and Jared Duker Lichtman). C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris, accepted.
8. Asymptotics of Hankel determinants with a multi-cut regular potential and Fisher-Hartwig singularities (with Christophe Charlier, Benjamin Fahs and Christian Webb). Mem. Amer. Math. Soc., in press.
7. On the critical-subcritical moments of moments of random characteristic polynomials: a GMC perspective (with Jon Keating). Comm. Math. Phys., in press.
6. Tail universality of critical Gaussian multiplicative chaos. arXiv preprint.
5. Universal tail profile of Gaussian multiplicative chaos. Probab. Theor. Rel. Fields, accepted.
4. Fusion asymptotics for Liouville correlation functions (with Guillaume Baverez). Ann. Inst. Henri Poincar´e Probab. Stat., in press.
3. Pre-freezing transition in Boltzmann-Gibbs measures associated with log-correlated fields. arXiv preprint.
2. On the moments of the characteristic polynomial of a Ginibre random matrix (with Christian Webb). Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., accepted.
1. Random Hermitian matrices and Gaussian multiplicative chaos (with Nathanaël Berestycki and Christian Webb). Probab. Theor. Rel. Fields, 2017.
Collaborators: Nikolay Barashkov, Guillaume Baverez, Nathanaël Berestycki, Christophe Charlier, Benjamin Fahs, Ofir Gorodetsky, Jonathan Keating, Jared Duker Lichtman, Joona Oikarinen, Christian Webb
Recent/Forthcoming Talks
Oct 2023: Probability and Dynamics Seminar, University of Victoria
Sep 2023: CIME summer school, Italy
Aug 2023: Workshop on random matrices, University of Oxford
Jun 2023: Workshop on GMCs, Polish Academy of Sciences
Feb 2023: MASS Seminar, University of Sussex
Jan 2023: Analysis Seminar, Durham University
Nov 2022: Probability Seminar, University of Edinburgh
Sep 2022: Mathematics Research Day, Durham University
Jan 2022: Probability in the North East day, University of Sheffield
Nov 2021: Probability Seminar, Durham University
Mar 2020: UK Easter Probability Meeting 2020, Manchester
Oct 2019: Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar, University of Oxford
Oct 2019: Probability Seminar, University of Manchester
Mar 2019: Seminar, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Feb 2019: Seminar in Probability Theory, Universität Basel
Nov 2018: Vienna Probability Seminar, University of Vienna
Jun 2018: IWAP 2018, Budapest
Mar 2018: Probability Seminar, King's College London
Feb 2018: Guest lectures, ENS Paris
Teaching
- Durham University
Epiphany 2022: Mathematical Finance III/IV
Michaelmas 2021: tutorial classes for Probability I and Markov Chain II
- University of Oxford
Michaelmas 2019: tutorial classes for B8.4 Information Theory
- University of Cambridge
Lent 2018: supervisions for Part II Applied Probability
Michaelmas 2017: example classes for Part III Advanced Probability
Lent 2017: supervisions for Part II Applied Probability
Michaelmas 2016: supervisions for Part III Advanced Probability
Miscellaneous
Reading group on Stochastic Block Models and Related Topics, Lent 2019
Reading group on Limit Theorems in Probability, Michaelmas 2017
Contact Details
Address: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LE
Email: mo[hyphen]dick[dot]wong[at]durham.ac.uk
Links
My Croucher Scholar page and Google Scholar page, and my mathematics blog
Some of my colleagues from CCA cohort 2015: Matthias Löffler, Eardi Lila, Nicolai Baldin, Lisa Kreusser, Kweku Abraham
My other close friends: Cheung Chung Ming