I am a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of British Columbia, working in probability theory.
Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
1984 Mathematics Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada
Email: dickson(at)math.ubc.ca
Office: LSK 126E
My main fields of interest cover various random marked point processes - including spatial random graph models and marked random connection, as well as bosonic loop soup models and random interlacements. These models exhibit phase transitions in their percolation and condensation behaviour.
M. Dickson and Y. Liu,
Decay of connection probability in high-dimensional continuum percolation.
Preprint, 29 pages.
[preprint@arXiv]
M. Dickson and M. Heydenreich,
Mean-field behaviour of the random connection model on hyperbolic space.
Preprint, 37 pages.
[preprint@arXiv]
M. Dickson,
Non-uniqueness phase in hyperbolic marked random connection models using the spherical transform.
Preprint, 52 pages.
[preprint@arXiv]
M. Dickson and M. Heydenreich,
The triangle condition for the marked random connection model.
Preprint, 85 pages.
[preprint@arXiv]
M. Dickson and M. Heydenreich,
Expansion of the critical intensity for the random connection model.
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 34 (2):158–209 (2025).
[article@CambridgeCore] (open access)
A. Caicedo and M. Dickson,
Critical exponents for marked random connection models.
Electronic Journal of Probability 29, no. 151, 1–57 (2024).
[article@ProjectEuclid] (open access)
M. Dickson and Q. Vogel,
Formation of infinite loops for an interacting bosonic loop soup.
Electronic Journal of Probability 29, no. 24, 1–39 (2024).
[article@ProjectEuclid] (open access)
S. Adams and M. Dickson,
Large deviations analysis for random combinatorial partitions with counter terms.
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 55 (25):52pp (2022).
[article@IOPscience] (open access)
S. Adams and M. Dickson,
An explicit large deviation analysis of the spatial cycle Huang-Yang-Luttinger model.
Ann. Henri Poincaré 22, 1535–1560 (2021).
[article@SpringerLink] (open access)
Simulation of the Boolean random connection model on the Poincare disc model of the hyperbolic plane.
Small Class Instructor for MATH 101: Integral Calculus with Applications (UBC Winter 2 2024/25)
Small Class Instructor for MATH 100: Differential Calculus with Applications (UBC Summer 1 2023/24)
Small Class Instructor for MATH 101: Integral Calculus with Applications (UBC Winter 2 2023/24)
Small Class Instructor for MATH 100: Differential Calculus with Applications (UBC Winter 1 2023/24)
Co-lecturer for Gibbsian Point Processes with M. Heydenreich (LMU winter term 2022/2023)