Tom Alberts

Tom Alberts

Associate Professor of Mathematics

University of Utah

Biography

I am currently an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah. My main focus of research is in probability theory, and within that I study two-dimensional conformally invariant systems. The basic model of these are the Schramm-Loewner Evolution and its variants. I also have interests in statistical mechanics, random walks in random environments, directed polymer models, last passage percolation, and random matrix theory.

Interests
  • Probability Theory
  • Stochastic Analysis
  • 2D Conformally Invariant Systems
  • Directed Polymer Models
  • Last Passage Percolation
  • Random Matrices
Education
  • PhD in Mathematics, 2008

    Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University

  • BSc in Mathematics, 2002

    University of Alberta

Contact Information

  • lastname (at) math (dot) utah (dot) edu
  • 801-585-1643
  • 155 S 1400 E Room 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090
  • LCB 114

Recent Publications

Joint stochastic localization and applications.
arXiv:2505.13410 [math.ST] . (2025).
Large deviations of geodesic midpoint fluctuations in last-passage percolation with general iid weights.
arXiv:2502.00942 [math.PR] . (2025).
Pole dynamics and an integral of motion for multiple SLE(0).
Selecta Mathematica, 30, 1–77. (2024).
Conformal field theory of Gaussian free fields in a multiply connected domain.
arXiv:2407.08220 [math-ph] . (2024).
Dimension Results for the Spectral Measure of the Circular Beta Ensembles.
Annals of Applied Probability, 32, 4642–4680. (2022).

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Loewner Dynamics for Real Rational Functions and the SLE(0) Process
Dubedat Screening and Level Two Non-Degeneracy
Large Deviations for Geodesic Midpoint Fluctuations in Last Passage Percolation
Large Deviations for Geodesic Midpoint Fluctuations in Last Passage Percolation
Conformal Field Theory for Multiple SLEs