Catherine Wolfram

Hi! I am a 5th year math PhD student at MIT, advised by Scott Sheffield. Before that, I was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. I'm interested in various topics related to complex analysis, probability, and geometry. Here is my CV (last updated September 24, 2023). In Fall 2024, I will be an NSF postdoctoral fellow and Gibbs Assistant Professor at Yale.

Office: 2-333C

Email: wolframc at mit dot edu

Papers

(with Nishant Chandgotia, Scott Sheffield) Large deviations for the 3D dimer model (2023). [arxiv] [pdf]
(with Dragomir Saric, Yilin Wang) Circle homeomorphisms with square summable diamond shears (2022). [arxiv] [pdf]

Talks and travel

Upcoming travel and talks (as of March):

April 23, 2024. Seed Seminar of Mathematics and Physics (online).
May 6-10, 2024. IPAM Workshop III: Statistical Mechanics Beyond 2D, Los Angeles, CA.
May 12-17, 2024. Statistical Physics and Random Surfaces, Oberwolfach.
June 1-15, 2024. Visiting IHES.
June 17-19, 2024. Workshop on Probabilistic Field Theories, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
August 12-16, 2024. 11th World Congress on Probability and Statistics, Bochum, Germany.

Some past talks and presentations, including links to slides or recordings.

March 4-8, 2024. KPZ meets KPZ workshop, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada.
January 16, 2024. University of Edinburgh probability seminar (online).
November 27, 2023. MIT probability seminar, Cambridge, MA.
November 10, 2023. University of Chicago probability and statistical physics seminar, Chicago, IL.
November 6, 2023. Brown combinatorics seminar, Providence, RI.
November 1, 2023. Informal seminar: dynamics, geometry, and moduli spaces (Harvard), Cambridge, MA.
September 29-October 1, 2023. Asymptotic limits of discrete structures workshop at ICERM, Providence, RI.
September 27, 2023. Harvard CMSA probability seminar, Cambridge, MA.
September 21, 2023. MIT integrable probability seminar, Cambridge, MA. (recording available on request)
July 10-July 13, 2023. dimers2023 [slides]
June 13, 2023. Percolation today
May 25, 2023. LA probability forum [slides]
April 28, 2023. Informal analysis and probability seminar (IHES)
March 24, 2023. Courant probability and mathematical physics seminar
March 7, 2023. Rutgers geometry/topology seminar [slides]
February 22, 2023. Informal seminar: dynamics, geometry and moduli spaces (Harvard)
February 7, 2023. CUNY hyperbolic geometry seminar
October 28, 2022. Random Geometry and Statistical Physics Workshop in Philadelphia, PA [slides]
July 7, 2022. Probability and Mathematical Physics in Helsinki, Finland [recording]

For videos of 3D dimer simulation slices featured in some of my talks, see here.

Teaching

Spring 2024: I am not teaching thanks to a Phyllis Ruby Block Fellowship from MIT.
Fall 2023: recitation leader for 18.600 (probability and random variables).
January 2023 (IAP): recitation leader for 18.02A (multivariable calculus).
Spring 2022: recitation leader for 18.600 (probability and random variables)
Fall 2021: recitation leader for 18.600 (probability and random variables)

Service and outreach

Co-organizer and mentor for the MIT math directed reading program (DRP), a program which pairs undergraduate students at MIT with graduate students and postdocs to do a reading project over IAP about a math topic of their choice.
(2020-2021) Co-organizer of Pumagrass (pure math graduate student seminar), a weekly seminar for graduate students in the math department to give informal talks to their peers.
(2020-2021) Manager of the MIT math learning center, the peer-tutoring center run by the MIT math department.
(Summer 2020) Mentor for two advanced high school students at RSI.

Undergrad work

I spent two summers during undergrad at the University of Chicago math REU. The papers I wrote can be found here and here.

Some pictures

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