Sourav Chatterjee
Professor of Statistics and of Mathematics
Web page: https://statweb.stanford.edu/~souravc/
Administrative Appointments
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Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University (2013 - Present)
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Visiting Associate Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University (2012 - 2013)
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Associate Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University (2009 - 2013)
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Associate Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley (2009 - 2011)
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Visiting Professor of Mathematics, Université de Toulouse (2008 - 2008)
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Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley (2006 - 2009)
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Visiting Neyman Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley (2005 - 2006)
Honors & Awards
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Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2024)
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Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Society of London (2023)
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Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences, Infosys Science Foundation (2020)
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Fellow of IMS, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2018)
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ICM Invited Talk, International Congress of Mathematicians (2014)
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IISA Young Researcher Award, International Indian Statistical Association (2013)
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Line and Michel Loeve International Prize in Probability, University of Calfornia, Berkeley (2013)
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First recipient of the Doeblin Prize in Probability, Bernoulli Society with sponsorship from Springer-Verlag (2012)
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IMS Medallion Lecture, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2012)
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Rollo Davidson Prize, Rollo Davidson Trustees, University of Cambridge (2010)
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Tweedie New Researcher Award, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2008)
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Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2007 - 2009)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Associate editor, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (2023 - Present)
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Associate editor, Annals of Applied Probability (2022 - Present)
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Associate editor, Communications in Mathematical Physics (2019 - Present)
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Associate editor, Probability Theory and Related Fields (2012 - 2015)
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Editor, Sankhya, Series A (2012 - 2015)
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Associate editor, Annals of Probability (2009 - 2014)
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Associate editor, Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (B) (2008 - 2013)
Professional Education
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Bachelor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Statistics (2000)
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Master, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Statistics (2002)
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Ph.D., Stanford University, Statistics (2005)
2024-25 Courses
- Theory of Probability III
MATH 230C, STATS 310C (Spr) - Topics in Mathematical Physics
MATH 273A (Aut) - Topics in Mathematical Physics
MATH 273B (Win) -
Independent Studies (5)
- Advanced Reading and Research
MATH 360 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Independent Study
STATS 299 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Research
PHYSICS 490 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Research
STATS 399 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Honors Thesis
MATH 197 (Aut)
- Advanced Reading and Research
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Prior Year Courses
2022-23 Courses
- Fundamental Concepts of Analysis
MATH 171 (Aut) - Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory
MATH 113 (Spr) - Theory of Probability I
MATH 230A, STATS 310A (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- Linear Algebra and Matrix Theory
MATH 113 (Spr) - Stein's Method
STATS 324 (Spr) - Theory of Probability II
MATH 230B, STATS 310B (Win)
- Fundamental Concepts of Analysis
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Basil Saeed -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Rahul Raphael Kanekar, Zhihan Li, Timothy Sudijono
All Publications
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Enumerative theory for the Tsetlin library
JOURNAL OF ALGEBRA
2024; 655: 139-162
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jalgebra.2023.08.009
View details for Web of Science ID 001252306200001
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Features of a Spin Glass in the Random Field Ising Model
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
2024; 405 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00220-024-04986-9
View details for Web of Science ID 001199509500001
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A State Space for 3D Euclidean Yang-Mills Theories
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
2024; 405 (1)
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00220-023-04870-y
View details for Web of Science ID 001143463900001
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Isomorphisms between random graphs
JOURNAL OF COMBINATORIAL THEORY SERIES B
2023; 160: 144-162
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jctb.2023.01.001
View details for Web of Science ID 001003656600001
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Weak convergence of directed polymers to deterministic KPZ at high temperature
ANNALES DE L INSTITUT HENRI POINCARE-PROBABILITES ET STATISTIQUES
2023; 59 (2): 774-794
View details for DOI 10.1214/22-AIHP1287
View details for Web of Science ID 000972015200010
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The Yang-Mills heat flow with random distributional initial data
COMMUNICATIONS IN PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
2023
View details for DOI 10.1080/03605302.2023.2169937
View details for Web of Science ID 000946635300001
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Matrix Completion With Data-Dependent Missingness Probabilities
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY
2022; 68 (10): 6762-6773
View details for DOI 10.1109/TIT.2022.3170244
View details for Web of Science ID 000854619600027
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Existence of stationary ballistic deposition on the infinite lattice
RANDOM STRUCTURES & ALGORITHMS
2022
View details for DOI 10.1002/rsa.21116
View details for Web of Science ID 000846493500001
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Local KPZ Behavior Under Arbitrary Scaling Limits
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
2022
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00220-022-04492-w
View details for Web of Science ID 000843830200001
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Superconcentration in surface growth
RANDOM STRUCTURES & ALGORITHMS
2022
View details for DOI 10.1002/rsa.21108
View details for Web of Science ID 000827667100001
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Convergence of Deterministic Growth Models
ARCHIVE FOR RATIONAL MECHANICS AND ANALYSIS
2022
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00205-022-01798-w
View details for Web of Science ID 000809691100001
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A PHASE TRANSITION FOR REPEATED AVERAGES
ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
2022; 50 (1): 1-17
View details for DOI 10.1214/21-AOP1526
View details for Web of Science ID 000760718500001
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A SIMPLE MEASURE OF CONDITIONAL DEPENDENCE
ANNALS OF STATISTICS
2021; 49 (6): 3070-3102
View details for DOI 10.1214/21-AOS2073
View details for Web of Science ID 000730645000002
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Speeding up Markov chains with deterministic jumps (vol 178, pg 1193, 2020)
PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS
2021
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00440-021-01049-1
View details for Web of Science ID 000692971000001
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A Probabilistic Mechanism for Quark Confinement
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
2021
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00220-021-04086-y
View details for Web of Science ID 000640467500001
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Average Gromov hyperbolicity and the Parisi ansatz
ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICS
2021; 376
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.aim.2020.107417
View details for Web of Science ID 000596151500024
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A Deterministic Theory of Low Rank Matrix Completion
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY
2020; 66 (12): 8046–55
View details for DOI 10.1109/TIT.2020.3019569
View details for Web of Science ID 000594905600046
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Fluctuation lower bounds in planar random growth models
ANNALES DE L INSTITUT HENRI POINCARE-PROBABILITES ET STATISTIQUES
2020; 56 (4): 2406–27
View details for DOI 10.1214/19-AIHP1043
View details for Web of Science ID 000582036900007
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LOCALIZATION IN GAUSSIAN DISORDERED SYSTEMS AT LOW TEMPERATURE
ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
2020; 48 (6): 2755–2806
View details for DOI 10.1214/20-AOP1436
View details for Web of Science ID 000581921000003
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Speeding up Markov chains with deterministic jumps
PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS
2020
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00440-020-01006-4
View details for Web of Science ID 000572039300002
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A New Coefficient of Correlation
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
2020
View details for DOI 10.1080/01621459.2020.1758115
View details for Web of Science ID 000541351100001
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Wilson Loops in Ising Lattice Gauge Theory
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
2020
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00220-020-03738-9
View details for Web of Science ID 000522896900001
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CONSTRUCTING A SOLUTION OF THE (2+1)-DIMENSIONAL KPZ EQUATION
ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
2020; 48 (2): 1014–55
View details for DOI 10.1214/19-AOP1382
View details for Web of Science ID 000528269100015
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LOCALIZATION IN RANDOM GEOMETRIC GRAPHS WITH TOO MANY EDGES
ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
2020; 48 (2): 574–621
View details for DOI 10.1214/19-AOP1387
View details for Web of Science ID 000528269100002
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THE ENDPOINT DISTRIBUTION OF DIRECTED POLYMERS
ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
2020; 48 (2): 817–71
View details for DOI 10.1214/19-AOP1376
View details for Web of Science ID 000528269100010
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Rigidity of the three-dimensional hierarchical Coulomb gas
PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS
2019; 175 (3-4): 1123–76
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00440-019-00912-6
View details for Web of Science ID 000493683800014
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Proof of the Path Localization Conjecture for Directed Polymers
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
2019; 370 (2): 703–17
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00220-019-03533-1
View details for Web of Science ID 000482219400009
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A GENERAL METHOD FOR LOWER BOUNDS ON FLUCTUATIONS OF RANDOM VARIABLES
ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
2019; 47 (4): 2140–71
View details for DOI 10.1214/18-AOP1304
View details for Web of Science ID 000474204900008
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Central Limit Theorem for the Free Energy of the Random Field Ising Model
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS
2019; 175 (1): 185–202
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10955-019-02249-9
View details for Web of Science ID 000462211500009
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Rigorous Solution of Strongly Coupled SO(N) Lattice Gauge Theory in the Large N Limit
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
2019; 366 (1): 203–68
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00220-019-03353-3
View details for Web of Science ID 000460545700007
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On the Decay of Correlations in the Random Field Ising Model
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
2018; 362 (1): 253–67
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00220-018-3085-0
View details for Web of Science ID 000440111100008
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THE SAMPLE SIZE REQUIRED IN IMPORTANCE SAMPLING
ANNALS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY
2018; 28 (2): 1099–1135
View details for DOI 10.1214/17-AAP1326
View details for Web of Science ID 000431722900011
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Arbitrarily small perturbations of Dirichlet Laplacians are quantum unique ergodic
JOURNAL OF SPECTRAL THEORY
2018; 8 (3): 909–47
View details for DOI 10.4171/JST/217
View details for Web of Science ID 000438822200005
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A CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM FOR A NEW STATISTIC ON PERMUTATIONS
INDIAN JOURNAL OF PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS
2017; 48 (4): 561–73
View details for DOI 10.1007/s13226-017-0246-3
View details for Web of Science ID 000419195300006
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Discussion of the Paper on Concentration for (Regularized) Empirical Risk Minimization by Sara van de Geer and Martin Wainwright
SANKHYA-SERIES A-MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
2017; 79 (2): 208-211
View details for Web of Science ID 000413700700003
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MINIMAL SPANNING TREES AND STEIN'S METHOD
ANNALS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY
2017; 27 (3): 1588–1645
View details for DOI 10.1214/16-AAP1239
View details for Web of Science ID 000406891000009
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Large Deviations for Random Graphs: Ecole d'Ete de Probabilites de Saint-Flour XLV - 2015
LARGE DEVIATIONS FOR RANDOM GRAPHS: ECOLE D'ETE DE PROBABILITES DE SAINT-FLOUR XLV - 2015
2017; 2197: 1–167
View details for DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-65816-2
View details for Web of Science ID 000445854600010
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The leading term of the Yang-Mills free energy
JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
2016; 271 (10): 2944-3005
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jfa.2016.04.032
View details for Web of Science ID 000384955200009
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AN INTRODUCTION TO LARGE DEVIATIONS FOR RANDOM GRAPHS
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
2016; 53 (4): 617-642
View details for DOI 10.1090/bull/1539
View details for Web of Science ID 000392745400003
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Nonlinear large deviations
ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICS
2016; 299: 396-450
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.aim.2016.05.017
View details for Web of Science ID 000380294900013
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Absence of Replica Symmetry Breaking in the Random Field Ising Model
COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
2015; 337 (1): 93-102
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00220-014-2269-5
View details for Web of Science ID 000353504700004
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MATRIX ESTIMATION BY UNIVERSAL SINGULAR VALUE THRESHOLDING
ANNALS OF STATISTICS
2015; 43 (1): 177-214
View details for DOI 10.1214/14-AOS1272
View details for Web of Science ID 000349738500007
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A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON LEAST SQUARES UNDER CONVEX CONSTRAINT
ANNALS OF STATISTICS
2014; 42 (6): 2340-2381
View details for DOI 10.1214/14-AOS1254
View details for Web of Science ID 000345884900007
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Invariant Measures and the Soliton Resolution Conjecture
COMMUNICATIONS ON PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
2014; 67 (11): 1737-1842
View details for DOI 10.1002/cpa.21501
View details for Web of Science ID 000342981100001
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Fluctuations of the Bose-Einstein condensate
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL
2014; 47 (8)
View details for DOI 10.1088/1751-8113/47/8/085201
View details for Web of Science ID 000332003600002
- Superconcentration and Related Topics Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg. 2014
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A short survey of Stein's method
Kyung Moon SA Co Ltd. 2014: 1-24
View details for Web of Science ID 000498917400001
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ESTIMATING AND UNDERSTANDING EXPONENTIAL RANDOM GRAPH MODELS
ANNALS OF STATISTICS
2013; 41 (5): 2428-2461
View details for DOI 10.1214/13-AOS1155
View details for Web of Science ID 000327746100006
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Central limit theorem for first-passage percolation time across thin cylinders
PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS
2013; 156 (3-4): 613-663
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00440-012-0438-z
View details for Web of Science ID 000321917600005
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Random overlap structures: properties and applications to spin glasses
PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS
2013; 156 (1-2): 375-413
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00440-012-0431-6
View details for Web of Science ID 000319160600014
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The universal relation between scaling exponents in first-passage percolation
ANNALS OF MATHEMATICS
2013; 177 (2): 663-697
View details for DOI 10.4007/annals.2013.177.2.7
View details for Web of Science ID 000314351100007
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The missing log in large deviations for triangle counts
RANDOM STRUCTURES & ALGORITHMS
2012; 40 (4): 437-451
View details for DOI 10.1002/rsa.20381
View details for Web of Science ID 000303919000003
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Probabilistic methods for discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equations
COMMUNICATIONS ON PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
2012; 65 (5): 727-757
View details for DOI 10.1002/cpa.21388
View details for Web of Science ID 000300716900005
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A new approach to strong embeddings
PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS
2012; 152 (1-2): 231-264
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00440-010-0321-8
View details for Web of Science ID 000299131700008
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Random Multiplicative Functions in Short Intervals
INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICS RESEARCH NOTICES
2012: 479-492
View details for DOI 10.1093/imrn/rnr023
View details for Web of Science ID 000300038500001
- Large deviations for random matrices Communications on Stochastic Analysis 2012; 6 (1): 1-13
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A Combinatorial Analysis of Interacting Diffusions
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL PROBABILITY
2011; 24 (4): 939-968
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10959-009-0269-8
View details for Web of Science ID 000296287200003
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The large deviation principle for the Erdos-Renyi random graph
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS
2011; 32 (7): 1000-1017
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.ejc.2011.03.014
View details for Web of Science ID 000294580100005
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RANDOM GRAPHS WITH A GIVEN DEGREE SEQUENCE
ANNALS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY
2011; 21 (4): 1400-1435
View details for DOI 10.1214/10-AAP728
View details for Web of Science ID 000294220500006
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NONNORMAL APPROXIMATION BY STEIN'S METHOD OF EXCHANGEABLE PAIRS WITH APPLICATION TO THE CURIE-WEISS MODEL
ANNALS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY
2011; 21 (2): 464-483
View details for DOI 10.1214/10-AAP712
View details for Web of Science ID 000289268100002
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Exponential Approximation by Stein's Method and Spectral Graph Theory
ALEA-LATIN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
2011; 8: 197-223
View details for Web of Science ID 000299489100011
- Spectral clustering and the high-dimensional Stochastic Block Model Annals of Statistics 2011; 39 (4): 1878-1915
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Spin glasses and Stein's method
PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS
2010; 148 (3-4): 567-600
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00440-009-0240-8
View details for Web of Science ID 000281013300007
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APPLICATIONS OF STEIN'S METHOD FOR CONCENTRATION INEQUALITIES
ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
2010; 38 (6): 2443-2485
View details for DOI 10.1214/10-AOP542
View details for Web of Science ID 000283010500010
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PHASE TRANSITIONS IN GRAVITATIONAL ALLOCATION
GEOMETRIC AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
2010; 20 (4): 870-917
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00039-010-0090-7
View details for Web of Science ID 000283116900002
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Gravitational allocation to Poisson points
ANNALS OF MATHEMATICS
2010; 172 (1): 617-671
View details for Web of Science ID 000279614000013
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A phase transition behavior for Brownian motions interacting through their ranks
PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS
2010; 147 (1-2): 123-159
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00440-009-0203-0
View details for Web of Science ID 000274657400004
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AN OBSERVATION ABOUT SUBMATRICES
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS IN PROBABILITY
2009; 14: 495-500
View details for Web of Science ID 000272620400001
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Central Limit Theorems for the Energy Density in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS
2009; 137 (4): 639-666
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10955-009-9865-3
View details for Web of Science ID 000272159500003
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CONSISTENT ESTIMATES OF DEFORMED ISOTROPIC GAUSSIAN RANDOM FIELDS ON THE PLANE
ANNALS OF STATISTICS
2009; 37 (5A): 2324-2350
View details for DOI 10.1214/08-AOS647
View details for Web of Science ID 000268604900009
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Fluctuations of eigenvalues and second order Poincare inequalities
PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS
2009; 143 (1-2): 1-40
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00440-007-0118-6
View details for Web of Science ID 000260293800001
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A new method of normal approximation
ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
2008; 36 (4): 1584-1610
View details for DOI 10.1214/07-AOP370
View details for Web of Science ID 000258551700013
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Multivariate normal approximation using exchangeable pairs
ALEA-LATIN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PROBABILITY AND MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
2008; 4: 257-283
View details for Web of Science ID 000208538900013
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Estimation in spin glasses: A first step
ANNALS OF STATISTICS
2007; 35 (5): 1931-1946
View details for DOI 10.1214/009053607000000109
View details for Web of Science ID 000251096100004
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Stein's method for concentration inequalities
PROBABILITY THEORY AND RELATED FIELDS
2007; 138 (1-2): 305-321
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00440-006-0029-y
View details for Web of Science ID 000245855500010
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Concentration of Haar measures, with an application to random matrices
JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
2007; 245 (2): 379-389
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jfa.2007.01.003
View details for Web of Science ID 000245819100002
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A generalization of the Lindeberg principle
ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
2006; 34 (6): 2061-2076
View details for DOI 10.1214/009117906000000575
View details for Web of Science ID 000244728300001
- Exchangeable pairs and Poisson approximation Probability Surveys 2005; 2: 64-106
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Exchangeable pairs and Poisson approximation
PROBABILITY SURVEYS
2005; 2: 64-106
View details for DOI 10.1214/154957805100000096
View details for Web of Science ID 000438959400003
- Concentration inequalities with exchangeable pairs Ph.D. thesis. Stanford University 2005
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A new method for bounding rates of convergence of empirical spectral distributions
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL PROBABILITY
2004; 17 (4): 1003-1019
View details for Web of Science ID 000226094200010
- Limiting spectral distributions of large dimensional random matrices Journal of the Indian Statistical Association 2003; 41 (2): 221-259