Catherine Wolfram

I am an NSF postdoctoral fellow and Gibbs Assistant Professor at Yale University. In May 2024 I graduated from MIT with a PhD in math, advised by Scott Sheffield. Before that, I was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. I'm interested in various topics related to complex analysis, probability, and geometry. More information can be found in my CV here.

My email address is: catherine.wolfram at yale dot edu. (Note: after January 2025, I will not receive emails sent to my old MIT address.)

Papers

(with Nishant Chandgotia, Scott Sheffield) Large deviations for the 3D dimer model (2023). [arxiv] [pdf]
(with Dragomir Saric, Yilin Wang) Circle homeomorphisms with square summable diamond shears. Int. Math. Res. Not. (IMRN) Vol. 2024, 17 (2024). [arxiv] [pdf]

Talks and travel

Upcoming travel and talks:

February 19, 2025. University of Michigan probability seminar, Ann Arbor, MI.
April 5, 2025. AMS sectional meeting session on Probability and Combinatorics, Hartford, CT.
June 16-20, 2025. Perfectly matched perspectives on statistical mechanics, combinatorics and geometry, CIRM, Marseille, France.

Some past talks and presentations, including links to slides or recordings.

November 12, 2024. Princeton probability seminar, Princeton, NJ.
October 18, 2024. Columbia probability seminar, New York, NY.
September 24, 2024. Northwestern probability seminar, Evanston, IL.
August 12-16, 2024. 11th World Congress on Probability and Statistics, Bochum, Germany.
June 17-19, 2024. Workshop on Probabilistic Field Theories, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
June 1-15, 2024. Visiting IHES.
May 12-17, 2024. Statistical Physics and Random Surfaces, Oberwolfach.
May 6-10, 2024. IPAM Workshop III: Statistical Mechanics Beyond 2D, Los Angeles, CA.
April 23, 2024. Seed Seminar of Mathematics and Physics (online).
March 4-8, 2024. KPZ meets KPZ workshop, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada.
January 16, 2024. University of Edinburgh probability seminar (online).
November 27, 2023. MIT probability seminar, Cambridge, MA.
November 10, 2023. University of Chicago probability and statistical physics seminar, Chicago, IL.
November 6, 2023. Brown combinatorics seminar, Providence, RI.
November 1, 2023. Informal seminar: dynamics, geometry, and moduli spaces (Harvard), Cambridge, MA.
September 29-October 1, 2023. Asymptotic limits of discrete structures workshop at ICERM, Providence, RI.
September 27, 2023. Harvard CMSA probability seminar, Cambridge, MA.
September 21, 2023. MIT integrable probability seminar, Cambridge, MA. (recording available on request)
July 10-July 13, 2023. dimers2023 [slides]
June 13, 2023. Percolation today
May 25, 2023. LA probability forum
April 28, 2023. Informal analysis and probability seminar (IHES)
March 24, 2023. Courant probability and mathematical physics seminar
March 7, 2023. Rutgers geometry/topology seminar [slides]
February 22, 2023. Informal seminar: dynamics, geometry and moduli spaces (Harvard)
February 7, 2023. CUNY hyperbolic geometry seminar
October 28, 2022. Random Geometry and Statistical Physics Workshop in Philadelphia, PA
July 7, 2022. Probability and Mathematical Physics in Helsinki, Finland [recording]

For videos of 3D dimer simulation slices featured in some of my talks, see here.

Teaching

I am not teaching during the 2024-2025 academic year.

Fall 2023: recitation leader for 18.600 (probability and random variables).
January 2023 (IAP): recitation leader for 18.02A (multivariable calculus).
Spring 2022: recitation leader for 18.600 (probability and random variables)
Fall 2021: recitation leader for 18.600 (probability and random variables)

Undergrad work

I spent two summers during undergrad at the University of Chicago math REU. The papers I wrote can be found here and here.