Hi!
I am a Ritt Assistant Professor (postdoc) in the math department of Columbia University. Prior to that I spent one year in ENS Lyon working with Alice Guionnet. I graduated in November 2022 from Université Paris Dauphine where I did my PhD under the co-supervision of Djalil Chafaï (Université Paris Dauphine) and Sylvia Serfaty (New York University).
My research lies in probability theory with a special focus on statistical physics. Today, I am particularly interested in Coulomb gases and the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition, spin glasses, random matrices and renormalization.
Here is a brief CV.
Universal cutoff for Dyson Ornstein Uhlenbeck process, with Djalil Chafaï and Cyril Labbé
Probability Theory and Related Fields
ArXiv preprint
ArXiv preprint
Large deviations for the smallest eigenvalue of a deformed GOE with an outlier, with Alice Guionnet
ArXiv preprint
Dipole Formation in the Two-Component Plasma, with Sylvia Serfaty
ArXiv preprint
April 2025 NYU Courant Probability seminar
November 2024 Princeton Probability seminar
October 2024 Temple-UPenn Probability seminar
October 2024 CRM-ISM Probability seminar Montreal
August 2024 Bernoulli-IMS Congress in Probability and Statistics, session random matrices and applications
March 2023 Probability seminar, Université Aix Marseille
February 2023 Conference Hyperuniform structures, rigid point processes and related topics, Université de Lille
January 2023 Probability seminar, Université Grenoble Alpes
January 2023 Working group in stochastic modeling, LPSM Sorbonne Université
December 2022 Conference on Coulomb gases and universality, Institut Henri Poincaré
November 2022 Workshop Journées EFI, Université Lyon 1
September 2022 Working group LDRAM, ENS Lyon
May 2022 Probability seminar, Université Rennes 1
April 2022 Probability seminar, Université Paris Saclay
April 2022 Séminaire MEGA, Institut Henri Poincaré
March 2022 Probability seminar "Les probas du vendredi", LPSM Sorbonne Université
January 2022 Working group in probability, Université de Lille
May 2021 Université de Paris, SMAI project for young researchers, projet BOUM processus ponctuels
Spring 2025 Honors Math B, Columbia University
Fall 2024 Ordinary Differential Equations, Columbia University
Spring 2024 Calculus 3, Columbia University
Fall 2023 Ordinary Differential Equations, Columbia University
2021-2022 Teaching assistant in Analysis, Université Paris-Dauphine
2020-2021 Teaching assistant in Optimization at Master level, Université Paris-Dauphine
2019-2021 Teaching assistant in Probability, Université Paris-Dauphine
jb4893@columbia.edu