Dr Stefan Adams
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Stefan Adams Associate Professor (Reader) Office: B2.18 Phone: +44 (0) 24 7652 3571 Email: S dot Adams at warwick dot ac dot uk |
Dr Stefan Adams passed away on 8th May 2024. He was an extremely kind and helpful colleague, and he will be much missed.
If you have any enquiries, please contact James Robinson via Maths.Hod@warwick.ac.uk who will be able to deal with them or pass them as appropriate.
Research Interests:
Probability theory: Large deviation theory, concentration of measure problems, machine learning, interacting Brownian motions, statistical mechanics (interacting particle systems), random partitions (scaling limits), gradient & Laplacian models, multi-scale systems (renormalisation group theory) and Wasserstein gradient flows, dependent percolation in Euclidian spaces
Lecture Notes:
Lecture Notes - Large Deviation Theory
Lecture Notes - High-Dimensional Probability
Lecture Notes - Introduction to graduate probability
Lecture notes - Complex Analysis
Lecture Notes - Large deviations for stochastic processes
Lecture Notes - Functionalanalysis II
Most relevant recent publications:
- Adams, S. and Koller, A., The Hessian of surface tension characterises scaling limit of gradient models with non-convex energyLink opens in a new window, arXiv:2306.12226 (2023).
- Adams, S. and Dickson, M., Large deviations analysis for random combinatorial partitions with counter terms, arXiv:2109.12666 (2021); J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 55 (2022) 255001 (52pp) (pdf); https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ac6f32.
- Adams, S. and Dickson, M., An Explicit Large Deviation Analysis of the Spatial Cycle Huang-Yang-Luttinger Model, Annales Henri Poincaré 22, 1535--1560 (2021) (pdf).
- Adams, S. and Horrigan, S., Phase transition for Gibbs Delaunay Tessellations with geometric hardcore conditions, arXiv:2104.05108 (2021)
- Adams, S. and Mukherjee, C., Commutative diagram of the Gross-Pitaevskii approximation, arXiv:1911.09635 (2019).
- Adams, S. and Eyers, M., The Widom-Rowlinson Model on the Delaunay Graph, preprint arXiv:1705.07649, Electronic Journal of Probability 24, no. 114, 1-41, (2019).
- Adams,S.; Buchholz,S.; Kotecký and Müller, S., Cauchy-Born Rule from Microscopic Models with Non-convex Potentials, 168 pages, arXiv:1910.13564v1 (2019).
- Adams, S. and Vogel, Q., Space-time random walk loop measures, preprint arXiv:1711.02766v2 ; Stochastic Processes and their Applications online publication 18 June (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spa.2019.06.006, Stochastic Processes and their Applications 130, 2086--2126 (2020) (pdf).
- Adams, S., Kotecký, R., Müller, S., Strict Convexity of the Surface Tension for Non-convex Potentials, preprint arXiv:1606.09541, (2016).
- Adams, S., Kister, A., Weber, H.; Sample path large deviations for Laplacian models in $(1+1)$-dimensions, preprint arXiv:1602.02226v2, Electron. J. Probab. 21 (2016), no. 62, 1-36.
- Adams, S., Briceno, R., Marcus, B., Pavlov, R., Representation and poly-time approximation for pressure of $ \mathbb{Z}^2 $ lattice models in the non-uniqueness region, preprint arXiv 1508.06590, Journal of Statistical Physics 162, No1, DOI 10.1007/s10955-015-1433-4 (2015).
- Adams, S., Eyers, M., Phase transitions in Delaunay Potts models, prepint arXiv 1504.02769, Journal of Statistical Physics 161 No 4, DOI 10.1007/s10955-015-1393-8 (2015) (pdf).
- Adams, S., Kotecký, R., Müller, S., Finite range decomposition for families of gradient Gaussian measures, JFA 264, 169-206 (2013).
- Adams, S., Dirr, N., Peletier, M., Zimmer, J., Large deviations and gradient flows, Phil. Trans A 371, 20120341 (2013).
- Adams, S., Large deviations for stochastic processes, EURANDOM reports 2012-25, (2012).
- Adams, S., Dirr, N., Peletier, M., Zimmer, J., From a large deviations principle to the Wasserstein gradient flow: a new micro-macro passage, Comm. Math. Phys. 307:791-815 (2011).
Adams, S., Collevechio, A., and König, W., A variational formula for the free energy of an interacting many-particle system, Annals of Probab. 39, Number 2, 683-728 (2011). - Adams, S., Large deviations for empirical measures in cycles of integer partitions and their relation to systems of Bosons, Analysis and Stochastics of Growth Processes, LMS, Oxford University Press, 148-172 (2008).
- Adams, S. and W. König, Large deviations for many Brownian bridges with symmetrised initial-terminal condition, Probab. Theory Rel. Fields, Volume 142, Numbers 1-2, 79-124, (2008).
- Adams, S. and T. Dorlas, Asymptotic Feynman-Kac formulae for large symmetrised systems of random walks, Annales de l'institut Henri Poincaré (B) Probabilité et Statistiques, Volume 44, No. 5, 837-875 (2008).
- Adams, S. and J.-B. Bru and W. König, Large systems of path-repellent Brownian motions in a trap at positive temperature, EJP Vol 11, 460-485 (2006).
- Adams, S. and J.-B. Bru and W. König, Large deviations for trapped interacting Brownian particles and paths, Annals of Probab. 34, 1340-1422 (2006).
Workshops/conferences/seminars:
May 2016: Trends in mathematical crystallisation
May 2015: Summer school on 'Topics in renormalisation group theory and regularity structures'
Warwick Statistical Mechanics Seminar
Workshop Gradient Models and Elasticity (Warwick)
Conference in honour of Hans-Otto Georgii at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
Recent research grants:
First grant: (100% for 2011-12)
Recent awards & prizes:
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