Time: 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Speaker: Philippe Sosoe, Frank Spitzer and Narahari Umanath Prabhu Associate Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University
Abstract: Bernoulli percolation is one of the most classical models in statistical mechanics. Despite its apparent simplicity, it already has many of the interesting features expected of second order phase transitions. In this talk, I will review the percolation phase transition and talk about recent work with Shirshendu Chatterjee, Pranav Chinmay and Jack Hanson on scaling limits of critical percolation in high dimensions.
Bio: Philippe Sosoe’s research interests include probabilistic models inspired by statistical mechanics, in particular percolation and its many variants, random matrices and spin systems. The tools employed to analyze this tend to be analytic, and in this vein he also has an interest in partial differential equations.