Eyal Lubetzky

 

I am a Researcher at the Theory Group of Microsoft Research,
and an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington.

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Research interests: Probability Theory and Combinatorics.

 

 

 

 

 

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Professional:

• Publications:
  • List of publications and papers available online
  • The results on Cutoff for the Ising model with A. Sly were highlighted in the AMS volume What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences (Volume 8); here's an excerpt.
  • Images from recent works (additional ones here):

    Random triangle removal	Cutoff for general spin systems	(2+1)D SOS model

• Teaching:
  • Martingales & Concentration: Theory and Applications (MATH 581F, Fall 2012)
  • The Probabilistic Method in Combinatorics (CSE 599Z, Spring 2010)
  • Advanced Probability (Math 523A, Spring 2009)
• Editorial:
  • Associate Editor: Probability Theory and Related Fields.
  • Associate Editor: Annals of Applied Probability.
  • Program Committee: SODA 2010.
• Workshop organization:
  • Percolation and Interacting Systems, MSRI, Berkeley, Feb 2012.
  • Mixing rates for Markov chains, invited session at Stochastic Processes and Applications 2013.
• Ph.D. thesis, Tel Aviv University (2007). Thesis advisor: Prof. Noga Alon.
• Talks:
  • Cutoff phenomenon: instant randomnesss (Hebrew University, Dec 2012)
  • The shape of (2+1)D SOS (RIMS, Kyoto, Aug 2012)
  • Random triangle removal (Erdős Lecture Series 2012)
  • The static and stochastic Ising models (Stanford, May 2012)
  • Mini-course on Cutoff for Ising on the Lattice, parts I, II, III-IV, V (La-Pietra, Florence, Jun 2011)
  • Mini-course on mixing times of Markov Chains, parts II, III, IV (PIMS summer school in probability, Jun 2010)
  • Critical slowdown for the Ising model on the 2D lattice (Harvard, Mar 2010)
  • Cutoff for the Ising model on the lattice (MIT, Mar 2010)
  • Anatomy of a young giant component in the random graph (Rome, Feb 2010)
  • Glauber Dynamics for Spin Systems at High & Critical Temperatures (ICMP 2009)
  • Cutoff Phenomena in Random Walks on Random Regular Graphs (Oberwolfach, Apr 2009)
  • Non-backtracking random walks on expanders (UW, Nov 2007)
  • Uniformly cross intersecting families
  • Shannon capacity and Index Coding

 

Contact Info:

Email: 

Tel: (425) 703-7942

Fax: (425) 936-7329

Office address:
Theory Group, Microsoft Research
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052

 

Personal:

On September 1st 2008, a tragic hiking accident took the life of our dear colleague and friend, Oded Schramm.
His memory and inspiration will always be in my heart.