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

14. Multiplicative chaos measure for multiplicative functions: the L1-regime (with Ofir Gorodetsky). arXiv preprint.

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). Bull. Lond. Math. Soc, in press.

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

Mar 2025: Random Matrix Theory Seminars, University of Oxford
May 2024: Number Theory Seminar, University of Oxford
Mar 2024: Vienna Probability Seminar, TU Wien
Feb 2024: Hong Kong Probability Seminar, City University of Hong Kong
Jan 2024: Kyoto Probability Seminar, Kyoto University
Jan 2024: Tokyo Probability Seminar, University of Tokyo

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