Konstantinos Kavvadias
Konstantinos Kavvadias
Position: C.L.E. Moore Instructor, MIT
Link to CV: (updated October 2025)
Address: MIT Mathematics Department
182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
Office: 2-231 B
E-mail: kavva941@mit.edu
I am a C.L.E. Moore Instructor at MIT Mathematics Department. Before coming to the United States, I obtained my PhD at University of Cambridge Mathematics Department (DPMMS) in 2023 under the supervision of Jason Miller. I also did Part III in DPMMS during the academic year 2017-2018. Previously I did my undergrad in the Department of Mathematics in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
My research focuses on the intersection between complex analysis and probability. I am particularly interested in problems related to conformal welding and conformal removability. Moreover I study geometric objects which arise in statistical mechanics such as Random Planar Maps (RPM), Schramm-Loewner Evolution (SLE), Conformal Loop Ensembles (CLE) and the Gaussian Free Field (GFF). I am also interested in random surfaces and especially Liouville Quantum Gravity (LQG) surfaces and its properties (e.g., metric space structure, geodesic structure etc) and their higher-dimensional analogues. Another long term aspect of my research is to understand deeper relationships between RPM-SLE-LQG-GFF. Finally I am very interested in continuing to explore how concepts in complex analysis are related to these random geometric objects, e.g., conformal welding of random surfaces (see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1012.4797 and https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.7055), conformal removability of SLE (see my recent works https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.10532 and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.10857).
I am a co-organiser of the MIT Probability Seminar.
I am from Greece, and I grew up in Corfu (see the photo on the home page). When I am not doing math, I enjoy reading books, playing chess, exercising and watching movies from all over the world.