Catherine Wolfram

Hi! I am a 4th year 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.

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), submitted. [arxiv] [pdf]

Selected talks

Talks in Spring/Summer 2023:

February 7, 2023. CUNY hyperbolic geometry seminar
February 22, 2023. Informal seminar: dynamics, geometry and moduli spaces (Harvard)
March 7, 2023. Rutgers geometry/topology seminar [slides]
March 24, 2023. Courant probability and mathematical physics seminar
April 28, 2023. Informal analysis and probability seminar (IHES)
May 25, 2023. LA probability forum [slides]
June 13, 2023. Percolation today

Recent or upcoming travel and conferences:

April 16-May 8, 2023. Visiting IHES.
May 8-May 12, 2023. Three facets of gravity (participant).
July 10-July 13, 2023. dimers2023

Here are slides and a recording from past talks about 3D dimers:

July 2022, Probability and Mathematical Physics in Helsinki, Finland [recording]
October 2022, Random Geometry and Statistical Physics Workshop in Philadelphia, PA [slides]

Teaching

I am not teaching during Spring 2023. In January 2023 (IAP), I was a TA for 18.02A (multivariable calculus). In Fall 2021 and Spring 2022, I was a TA for 18.600 (probability and random variables). In Summer 2022, I was a TA for a one week minicourse Loewner Energy and Large Deviations of SLEs at the Cornell Probability Summer School.

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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