Evan Sorensen

I am a Joseph F. Ritt Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University.   Starting in Fall 2026, I will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Indiana University Bloomington.

I am a probabilist. In particular, I am interested in the central objects of the KPZ universality class, as well as their known and conjectured prelimiting models such as first-and last-passage percolation, polymers in random environments, and interacting particle systems. I study these models in both discrete and continuum settings, the latter involving techniques from stochastic PDEs. 

In June 2023, I completed my PhD in Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, advised by Timo Seppäläinen. I received an MA in mathematics from UW-Madison in 2020 and a BS in mathematics from Brigham Young University in 2017.