I am an NSF postdoc in the Department of Mathematics at Stanford University.
In May 2023, I received a PhD in mathematics from New York University. I was advised by Sylvia Serfaty. My CV can be found here.
My research interests include probability and mathematical physics. I am particularly interested in the Coulomb gas and in lattice models from statistical physics.
I can be reached at thoma (at) stanford.edu.
Below is a list of my (pre-)published research.
Thermodynamic and scaling limits of the non-Gaussian membrane model. Ann. Probab. 51 (2) 626-664, March 2023. journal, pdf.
Overcrowding and separation estimates for the Coulomb Gas. Comm. Pure Appl. Math. December 2023. journal, unrevised version pdf.
Non-rigidity properties of the Coulomb gas. accepted Ann. Probab, 2023. arxiv.
with D. Padilla-Garza, L. Peilen. Emergence of a Poisson process in weakly interacting particle systems. submitted, 2024. arxiv.
A maximum principle for the Coulomb gas: microscopic density bounds, confinement estimates, and high temperature limits. submitted, 2025. arxiv.
My teaching at Stanford includes:
MATH 136/STAT 219 Stochastic Processes, Autumn 2024.
MATH 151: Introduction to Probability Theory, Winter 2025.
MATH 171: Fundamental Concepts of Analysis, Autum 2025.