Elena Pulvirenti
Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor in the Applied Probability group, at Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics (DIAM), TU Delft.
My research interests are mathematical statistical mechanics and probability, with a particular focus on
Metastability for birth and death processes, potential theoretic approach to metastability, variational principles for capacity, large deviation theory;
Metastability for Glauber dynamics on random graphs;
Equilibrium phase transitions of continuum interacting particle systems with Kac potentials;
Cluster and Mayer expansions.
Publications and preprints
A. Bovier, F. den Hollander, S. Marello, E. Pulvirenti, M. Slowik "Metastability of Glauber dynamics with inhomogeneous coupling disorder", to appear in ALEA, Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat., preprint arXiv:2209.09827 [math.PR].
A. Bovier, S. Marello, E. Pulvirenti, "Metastability for the dilute Curie-Weiss model with Glauber dynamics", Electron. J. Probab. 26 1 - 38, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1214/21-EJP610
F. den Hollander, S. Jansen, R. Kotecký, E. Pulvirenti, "The Widom-Rowlinson model: Mesoscopic fluctuations for the critical droplet", preprint arXiv: 1907.00453 [math-ph].
E. Pulvirenti, D. Tsagkarogiannis, "Phase transitions and coarse graining for a system of particles in the continuum", P. Goncalves and A. J. Soares (eds.), From Particle Systems to Partial Differential Equations: Particle Systems and PDEs III, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, Vol.162, 263--283, 2016 (link, arXiv 1512.00781).
E. Pulvirenti, D. Tsagkarogiannis, "Finite Volume Corrections and Decay of Correlations in the Canonical Ensemble", J. Stat. Phys. 159, Issue 5, 1017--1039, 2015 (link).
E. Pulvirenti, D. Tsagkarogiannis, "Cluster Expansion in the Canonical Ensemble", Commun. Math. Phys. 316, 289--306, 2012 (link).
Papers in preparation
"Run-and-tumble particles with mean-field switching rates", (with F. Redig, H. van Wiechen)
"Metastability for the Curie-Weiss-Potts model with unbounded random interactions" (with J. L. A. Dubbeldam, V. Lenz, E. Pulvirenti, M. Slowik),
"The Widom-Rowlinson model: Microscopic fluctuations for the critical droplet and effective interface model", (with F. den Hollander, S. Jansen, R. Kotecký)
"The Widom-Rowlinson model: Metastability", (with F. den Hollander, S. Jansen, R. Kotecký)
PhD thesis
"Phase transitions and coarse graining for a system of particles in the continuum", Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, April 2013 (link).
Workshop
Young Women in Mathematical Physics (co-organized with Alessia Nota), Bonn, 24 - 26 September 2018
Participation as invited speaker
International workshop 2019 ─ UoC Forum “Universality in Interacting Particle Systems", Cologne (Germany), Sep 2019.
Workshop Women in Probability 2019, Technische Universität München (Germany), May 2019.
Mini-Workshop: Mathematics of Crystallisation, Oberwolfach (Germany), Apr 2019.
Mini-Workshop: Cluster Expansions: From Combinatorics to Analysis through Probability, Oberwolfach (Germany), Feb 2017.
Kinetic Theory and its neighbours, GSSI, L'Aquila (Italy), Oct 2016.
Young Women in Probability and Analysis, University of Bonn (Germany), Oct 2016.
Trends in Mathematical Crystallisation, University of Warwick (UK), May 2016.
Metastability in statistical mechanics and stochastic processes, Eurandom, TU Eindhoven (Netherlands), Apr 2016.
Workshop Women in Probability 2015, Technische Universität München (Germany), Jul 2015.
Expansion methods in statistical mechanics Successes, limitations, perspectives and alternatives, Utrecht University (Netherlands), Jul 2015.
Particle Systems and Partial Differential Equations - III, University of Minho, Braga (Portugal), Dec 2014.
Kinetic Description of Multiscale Phenomena, Archimedes Center for Modeling, Analysis and Computation, Heraklion (Greece), Jun 2013.
Winter School: Probability, CIRM, Luminy, Marseille (France), Feb 2013.
Short CV
TU Delft, Netherlands (Assistant Professor, since Sep 2020)
University of Bonn, Germany (Postdoc, Oct 2016 - Aug 2020)
Maternity leave (Oct 2017 - Jun 2018)
Leiden Mathematisch Instituut, Netherlands (Postdoc, Oct 2013 - Oct 2016)
Archimedes Center for Modeling, Analysis and Computation, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, Greece (Postdoc, May - Sep 2013)
Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn (May 2012 - Aug 2012): Trimester program "Mathematical challenges of materials science and condensed matter physics: From quantum mechanics through statistical mechanics to nonlinear pde"
Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome (PhD in Mathematics, Oct 2009 - Apr 2013)
Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome (MSc in Physics, Oct 2006 - Jul 2009)
A more detailed CV can be found here (updated 14.10.2020).
Contact information
TUDelft/EEMCS/DIAM
Mekelweg 4
2628 CD Delft
E-mail: E.Pulvirenti@tudelft.nl