Current research lines
Rigorous results in mathematical physics |
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Our analysis aims at providing rigorous mathematical results to several models in Euclidean quantum fields theory and classical statistical mechanics with relevant physical interest. We analyzed systems defined both in the continuum and on the lattice.
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Complex networks |
One of the most interesting challenges in Network Science today is to understand the relation between the structure of the system and its emergent dynamical properties. For instance, if we know how the structure of networks influences epidemic spreading, then we can predict the diffusion of diseases on a society and develop methods to control the pathogen propagation. The network structure is also fundamental to understand the synchronization phenomenon, which is a ubiquitous process in natural and artificial systems. This dynamical process can model the function of neurons in the central nervous system, power stations, crickets, heart cells and lasers. Thus, we can understand and control the behavior of several natural and artificial systems if we know how the network structure impacts the synchronization of coupled oscillators. Numerous other dynamical processes, such as cooperation and cascade failures, can also be studied in networks. |
One dimensional long range stochastic chains |
In one dimensional systems, long range models are a major source of problems. "Long range" means "not necessarily Markovian". Our interest is in large part due to the fact that they account for many interesting statistical physics phenomenon, such as phase transition (which cannot occur in finite range models), Gibbs/non-Gibbs transitions etc. We are specially interested in some basic questions such as existence, uniqueness, and statistical property (perfect simulation algorithms, mixing rate, limit theorem etc) of the stationary measure. But also in statistical inference of some properties of these chains, and applications to real datas (linguistic and neuroscience for example). |
Stochastic modeling of epidemic-like processes. |
We apply interacting particle systems, percolation models, and special stochastic processes to define theoretical models describing the spread of an information, or similar phenomena, on a population. The considered stochastic models are variants of the classical SIS (susceptible-infected-susceptible), known to probabilists as the contact process, and SIR (susceptible-infected-removed) epidemic models. We investigate the asymptotic behavior, and the existence of phase transitions, of such processes on different (random) graphs. |