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Tai Melcher



Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics

University of Virginia


My research interests intersect probability, geometry, and analysis. More particularly, they include infinite-dimensional analysis, Gaussian measures and processes, stochastic differential equations on Lie groups (and sometimes more general manifolds), Markov processes and semigroups, differential operators and hypoellipticity theory.  Most of my articles are on arXiv.

  • Functional inequalities for a family of infinite-dimensional diffusions with degenerate noise with F. Baudoin, M. Gordina, D. Herzog, and J. Kim
    accepted to Journal of Functional Analysis, 2024.

  • Large deviations principle for sub-Riemannian random walks with M. Gordina, D. Mikulincer, and J. Wang
    arXiv: 2210.05817, 2022.

  • Quasi-invariance for infinite-dimensional Kolmogorov diffusions with F. Baudoin and M. Gordina
    Potential Analysis, 60, 807-831, 2023.

  • Stochastic integrals and Brownian motion on abstract nilpotent Lie groups
    Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan, 73, 1159-1185, 2021.

  • Small-time asymptotics for subelliptic Hermite functions on SU(2) and the CR sphere with J. Campbell
    Potential Analysis, 53, 1063–1095, 2020.

  • Convergence rates of the empirical spectral measure of unitary Brownian motion with E. Meckes
    Annales Henri Lebesgue, 1, 247-265, 2018.

  • Hypoelliptic heat kernels on infinite-dimensional Heisenberg groups with B. Driver and N. Eldredge
    Transactions of the AMS, 368, 989-1022, 2016.

  • Small deviations for time-changed Brownian motions and applications to second-order chaos with D. Dobbs
    Electronic Journal of Probability, 19, 1-23, 2014.

  • Smoothness of heat kernel measures on infinite-dimensional Heisenberg-like groups with D. Dobbs
    Journal of Functional Analysis, 264, 2206-2223, 2013.

  • Quasi-invariance for heat kernel measures on sub-Riemannian infinite-dimensional Heisenberg groups with F. Baudoin and M. Gordina
    Transactions of the AMS, 365, 4313-4350, 2013.

  • A subelliptic Taylor isomorphism on infinite-dimensional Heisenberg groups with M. Gordina
    Probability Theory and Related Fields, 155, 379-426, 2013.

  • Heat kernel analysis on semi-infinite Lie groups
    Journal of Functional Analysis, 257, 3552-3592, 2009.

  • Malliavin calculus for Lie group-valued Wiener functions with note
    Infinite Dimensional Analysis, Quantum Probability and Related Topics, 12, 67-89, 2009.

  • Hypoelliptic heat kernel inequalities on Lie groups
    Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 118, 368-388, 2008.

  • Hypoelliptic heat kernel inequalities on the Heisenberg group with B. Driver
    Journal of Functional Analysis, 221, 340-365, 2005.

I co-organize the UVa Probability seminar. 

I am founder of and coordinate activities for Women in Probability.

I am faculty coordinator for the UVa Math Ambassadors.

All course materials for classes I am teaching may be found on the UVa Canvas course page.

Department of Mathematics

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA

 

Tel: (434) 982-2782

Fax: (434) 982-3084

Office: 205 Kerchof

E-mail: melcher "at" virginia.edu

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