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39
Citations
6629
World Ranking
2197
National Ranking
927

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 2012 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Allan Sly is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans across significant areas within mathematics and computer science, focusing particularly on mathematical physics, statistics and probability, condensed matter physics, computational theory and mathematics, and artificial intelligence.

The topics central to their work include:

  • Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
  • Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics
  • Random Matrices and Applications
  • Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

Their publication record features recent papers such as:

  • "Journal of the European Mathematical Society" (2025, Journal of the European Mathematical Society)
  • "Proof of the satisfiability conjecture for large k" (2022, Annals of Mathematics)
  • "Survival and extinction of epidemics on random graphs with general degree" (2021, The Annals of Probability)
  • "Nonexistence of Bigeodesics in Planar Exponential Last Passage Percolation" (2021, Communications in Mathematical Physics)
  • "A phase transition for repeated averages" (2022, The Annals of Probability)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Allan Sly include:

  • Youngtak Sohn
  • Danny Nam
  • Lingfu Zhang
  • Emmanuel Abbé
  • Shuangping Li

Allan Sly has published extensively in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Annals of Probability
  • Probability Theory and Related Fields
  • Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • The Annals of Applied Probability

In terms of recognition, Allan Sly was named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 2018 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Spectral redemption in clustering sparse networks

    Florent Krzakala;Cristopher Moore;Elchanan Mossel;Joseph Neeman

  • Reconstruction and estimation in the planted partition model

    Elchanan Mossel;Joseph Neeman;Allan Sly;Allan Sly

  • Random graphs with a given degree sequence

    Sourav Chatterjee;Persi Diaconis;Allan Sly

  • A Proof of the Block Model Threshold Conjecture

    Elchanan Mossel;Joe Neeman;Allan Sly

  • Stochastic Block Models and Reconstruction

    Elchanan Mossel;Joe Neeman;Allan Sly

  • Computational Transition at the Uniqueness Threshold

    Allan Sly

  • Proof of the Satisfiability Conjecture for Large k

    Jian Ding;Allan Sly;Nike Sun

  • Mixing time of exponential random graphs.

    Sreekalyani Shankar Bhamidi;Guy Bresler;Allan Sly

  • Reconstruction for the Potts model

    Allan Sly

  • Belief propagation, robust reconstruction and optimal recovery of block models

    Elchanan Mossel;Elchanan Mossel;Joe Neeman;Joe Neeman;Allan M. Sly;Allan M. Sly

  • The Computational Hardness of Counting in Two-Spin Models on d-Regular Graphs

    Allan Sly;Nike Sun

  • Counting in two-spin models on d-regular graphs

    Allan Sly;Allan Sly;Allan Sly;Nike Sun;Nike Sun;Nike Sun

  • Cutoff phenomena for random walks on random regular graphs

    Eyal Lubetzky;Allan Sly

  • Strategic Learning and the Topology of Social Networks

    Elchanan Mossel;Allan Sly;Omer Tamuz

  • Exact thresholds for Ising-Gibbs samplers on general graphs

    Elchanan Mossel;Allan Sly

  • Last Passage Percolation with a Defect Line and the Solution of the Slow Bond Problem

    Riddhipratim Basu;Vladas Sidoravicius;Allan Sly

  • Reconstruction of Markov Random Fields from Samples: Some Observations and Algorithms

    Guy Bresler;Elchanan Mossel;Allan M. Sly

  • Consistency Thresholds for the Planted Bisection Model

    Elchanan Mossel;Joe Neeman;Allan Sly

  • Reconstruction of Markov Random Fields from Samples: Some Observations and Algorithms

    Guy Bresler;Elchanan Mossel;Allan Sly

  • Random walks on the random graph

    Nathanael Berestycki;Eyal Lubetzky;Yuval Peres;Allan Sly

  • Consistency Thresholds for Binary Symmetric Block Models.

    Elchanan Mossel;Joe Neeman;Allan Sly

Frequent Co-Authors

Eyal Lubetzky
Eyal Lubetzky Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Prasad Tetali
Prasad Tetali Carnegie Mellon University
Persi Diaconis
Persi Diaconis Stanford University
Sourav Chatterjee
Sourav Chatterjee Stanford University
Emmanuel Abbe
Emmanuel Abbe École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Laurent Massoulié
Laurent Massoulié French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Amir Dembo
Amir Dembo Stanford University
Lenka Zdeborová
Lenka Zdeborová École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Florent Krzakala
Florent Krzakala École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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