Prospective Students

Graduate students

I am currently looking for graduate students, but I can only personally recruit from among students already enrolled in the Mathematics Department at Purdue. I cannot start research with a student until they have passed the qualifying exams, but I am happy to discuss potential research opportunities with any mathematics graduate student.

Graduate admissions are handled centrally by the Purdue Mathematics Department. If you are interested in applying to Purdue Mathematics, see: Graduate application instructions.

If you are interested in working with me, start with the two introductory pages below, then read the research topic pages to see whether the questions I work on match your interests. Good starting points for the research pages are general random walks in random potentials, solvable KPZ models, and stochastic PDE and continuum models.

It also helps to skim one related paper on the publications page.

Start Here

If you are new to these topics, begin with the universality page and then continue to the KPZ page. Together they introduce what universality means and how first-passage and last-passage percolation arise as basic examples in the KPZ class.

Additional introductory pages for other research areas will be added over time.