Qiang Wu

I received my Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Starting in Fall 2023, I will be a Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor in the University of Minnesota . My primary research interest is in probability and statistical physics, mainly on disordered system, such as spin glasses, random polymer models and their interactions with other areas like random matrices etc. I'm also interested in the application of mean field spin glass theory to high dimensional statistics and theoretical computer science. I was advised by Professor Partha S. Dey.

Email: wuq [at] umn [dot] edu

Office: Vincent Hall 221, School of mathematics, UMN.

Articles (alphabetical authorship convention unless starred)

► Fluctuation results for Multi-species Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model in the replica symmetric regime,

with Partha S. Dey. J. Stat.Phys., 185(3):Paper No. 22, 2021, arXiv 2012.13381

► Approximation algorithms for the random field Ising model,

with Tyler Helmuth, Holden Lee, Will Perkins, Mohan Ravichandran,

SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics , 37 (3), 1610-1629, 2023,, arXiv 2108.11889

► Mean field spin glasses under weak external fields,

with Partha S. Dey, to appear in Commun. Math. Phys. (2023), arXiv:2112.11349

► Hypergraph counting and mixed p-spin glass models under replica symmetry,

with Partha S. Dey, preprint (2022), arXiv:2212.14571

► Thouless-Anderson-Palmer equations for the Multi-species Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model,

preprint (2023), arXiv:2308.09099

► On the largest eigenvalue of strctured random matrices,

with Partha S. Dey, preprint (2023), in preparation

► Phase transition in spiked structured random matrices,

preprint (2023), in preparation

Teaching at UIUC

Math 231: Calculus II, Fall 2021

Math 234: Business calculus, Spring 2019

Math 221: Calculus I, Fall 2018, appeared in the excellent TA list.

Math 241: Calculus III, Fall 2019,2020.

Math 415: Applied Linear Algebra, Spring 2021.

Talks

Probability Seminar, University of Macau, March, 2022.

Probability Seminar, University of Wisconsin–Madison, March, 2022.

Frontier Probability Days, Mean field spin glass models under weak external fields, December, 2021.

Northeast Probability Seminar, Mean field spin glass models under weak external fields, November, 2021.

Workshop on Universality and Integrability in Random Matrix Theory and Interacting Particle Systems, MSRI, Berkeley, September, 2021.

Workshop on Structured Random Matrices in Down Under, August, 2021.

Probability seminar, Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March, 2021.

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