Catherine Wolfram

I'm currently a postdoc at ETH Zurich, in the group of Yilin Wang. Last year, I was an NSF postdoc and Gibbs Assistant Professor at Yale. I completed my PhD in math at MIT in 2024, advised by Scott Sheffield, and before that I was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. I'm interested in various topics related to complex analysis, probability, and geometry.

Email: cwolfram at math dot ethz dot ch OR catherine.wolfram at yale dot edu.
[Note: I will not receive messages sent to my old MIT email address!]

Research

For slides and recordings of talks, see here →

The multinomial dimer model

with Richard Kenyon

2025

Preprint.

arXiv

Epstein curves and holography of the Schwarzian action

with Franco Vargas Pallete and Yilin Wang

2025

Preprint.

arXiv

Large deviations for the 3D dimer model

with Nishant Chandgotia and Scott Sheffield

2023

Accepted, to appear in Astérisque.

arXiv

For 3D dimer simulations, see here →

Circle homeomorphisms with square summable diamond shears

with Dragomir Saric and Yilin Wang

2024

Int. Math. Res. Not. (IMRN), Vol. 2024, 17.

arXiv

Upcoming travel/talks

Some upcoming talks/travel (not always up to date!). See here for a more complete list.

• September 21-25, 2026. Cambridge equinox probability conference, Cambridge, UK.
• July 6–10, 2026. Random Explorations: From Random Walks to Random Geometry (Greg Lawler's 70th birthday conference), IMSI, Chicago, IL.
• April 23, 2026. One World Probability Seminar (online talk).
• April 13–17, 2026. Random Geometry in Math and Physics, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, NY.
• March 18, 2026. EPFL probability seminar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• March 11, 2026. University of Bern IMSV colloquium, Bern, Switzerland.

See all →