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  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society For contributions to probability.

Overview

Timo Seppäläinen is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their primary area of research lies within mathematics, with a focus on mathematical physics and statistics and probability. Their scholarly contributions span several related subfields including condensed matter physics, molecular biology, and artificial intelligence.

Their research frequently addresses topics such as stochastic processes and statistical mechanics, random matrices and applications, Markov chains and Monte Carlo methods, theoretical and computational physics, diffusion and search dynamics, Bayesian methods and mixture models, and advanced combinatorial mathematics.

Several recent papers illustrate the focus and breadth of their work:

  • Geometry of geodesics through Busemann measures in directed last-passage percolation (2022), Journal of the European Mathematical Society
  • Coalescence estimates for the corner growth model with exponential weights (2020), Electronic Journal of Probability
  • Busemann process and semi-infinite geodesics in Brownian last-passage percolation (2023), Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques
  • Global structure of semi-infinite geodesics and competition interfaces in Brownian last-passage percolation (2023), Probability and Mathematical Physics
  • Right-tail moderate deviations in the exponential last-passage percolation (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated multiple times with Seppäläinen include:

  • Evan Sorensen
  • Christopher Janjigian
  • Firas Rassoul-Agha
  • Elnur Emrah
  • Ofer Busani

The venues in which Seppäläinen commonly publishes research encompass:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Electronic Journal of Probability
  • Probability and Mathematical Physics
  • Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques
  • Communications in Mathematical Physics

In recognition of their contributions to probability, Seppäläinen was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Scaling for a one-dimensional directed polymer with boundary conditions

    Timo Seppäläinen

  • Tropical combinatorics and Whittaker functions

    Ivan Corwin;Neil O’Connell;Timo Seppäläinen;Nikolaos Zygouras

  • A Course on Large Deviations With an Introduction to Gibbs Measures

    Firas Rassoul-Agha;Timo O. Seppäläinen

  • The analytic network process in energy policy planning

    Raimo P. Hämäläinen;Timo O. Seppäläinen

  • Existence of Hydrodynamics for the Totally Asymmetric Simple K-Exclusion Process

    Timo Seppäläinen

  • Cube Root Fluctuations for the Corner Growth Model Associated to the Exclusion Process

    Marton Balazs;Eric Cator;Timo Seppalainen

  • Geometric RSK correspondence, Whittaker functions and symmetrized random polymers

    Neil O’Connell;Timo Seppäläinen;Nikos Zygouras

  • An almost sure invariance principle for random walks in a space-time random environment

    Firas Rassoul-Agha;Timo Seppäläinen

  • A MICROSCOPIC MODEL FOR THE BURGERS EQUATION AND LONGEST INCREASING SUBSEQUENCES

    Timo Seppäläinen

  • Fluctuation exponent of the KPZ/stochastic Burgers equation

    Marton Balazs;Jeremy Quastel;Timo Seppalainen

  • Large deviations for increasing sequences on the plane

    Timo Seppäläinen

  • Bounds for scaling exponents for a 1+1 dimensional directed polymer in a Brownian environment

    Timo Seppalainen;Benedek Valko

  • Quenched Free Energy and Large Deviations for Random Walks in Random Potentials

    Firas Rassoul-Agha;Timo Seppäläinen;Atilla Yilmaz

  • Order of current variance and diffusivity in the asymmetric simple exclusion process

    Márton Balázs;Timo Seppäläinen

  • Exact limiting shape for a simplified model of first-passage percolation on the plane

    Timo Seppäläinen

  • Scaling for a one-dimensional directed polymer with boundary conditions

    Timo Seppäläinen

  • The Strict-Weak Lattice Polymer

    Ivan Corwin;Timo Seppäläinen;Hao Shen

  • Hydrodynamics and Platoon Formation for a Totally Asymmetric Exclusion Model with Particlewise Disorder

    Timo Seppäläinen;Joachim Krug

  • Hydrodynamic Profiles for the Totally Asymmetric Exclusion Process with a Slow Bond

    Timo Seppalainen

  • Geodesics and the competition interface for the corner growth model

    Nicos Georgiou;Firas Rassoul-Agha;Timo Seppäläinen

  • A scaling limit for queues in series

    Timo Seppäläinen

  • Stationary cocycles and Busemann functions for the corner growth model

    Nicos Georgiou;Firas Rassoul-Agha;Timo Seppäläinen

  • Almost sure functional central limit theorem for ballistic random walk in random environment

    Firas Rassoul-Agha;Timo Seppäläinen

  • Entropy, limit theorems, and variational principles for disordered lattice systems

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Frequent Co-Authors

Ivan Corwin
Ivan Corwin Columbia University
Neil O'Connell
Neil O'Connell University College Dublin
Raimo P. Hämäläinen
Raimo P. Hämäläinen Aalto University
Jeremy Quastel
Jeremy Quastel University of Toronto

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