Brett Kolesnik

Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
University of Warwick

Research: Probability theory. Random structures, geometry, processes, etc. Interactions with combinatorics and discrete mathematics. For research articles see arXivLink opens in a new window and Google ScholarLink opens in a new window.

Group: Probability at WarwickLink opens in a new window

Teaching: Currently teaching ST323/412 Multivariate Statistics. Drop-in office hours on Mondays 8–11am in Zeeman B0.17.

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Background: PhD in Mathematics advised by Omer AngelLink opens in a new window at the University of British Columbia. NSERC of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley and San Diego. Florence Nightingale Bicentennial Fellow in Statistics at the University of Oxford and Senior Demy at Magdalen College.

Coauthors: Daniel AhlbergLink opens in a new window, David AldousLink opens in a new window, Omer AngelLink opens in a new window, Zsolt BarthaLink opens in a new window, Eleanor ArcherLink opens in a new window, Michal BassanLink opens in a new window, Matthew BucklandLink opens in a new window, Persi DiaconisLink opens in a new window, Serte DonderwinkelLink opens in a new window, Janko GravnerLink opens in a new window, Ivailo HartarskyLink opens in a new window, Gal KronenbergLink opens in a new window, Grégory MiermontLink opens in a new window, Rivka MitchellLink opens in a new window, Sam Olesker-TaylorLink opens in a new window, Emmanuel JacobLink opens in a new window, Yuval PeledLink opens in a new window, Tomasz PrzybyłowskiLink opens in a new window, Mario SanchezLink opens in a new window, Bruno SchapiraLink opens in a new window, Daniel ValesinLink opens in a new window, Nick WormaldLink opens in a new window, Georgii ZakharovLink opens in a new window, Maksim ZhukovskiiLink opens in a new window

Organization: Applied Probability SeminarLink opens in a new window at Warwick Stats 2025–26. European Meeting of StatisticiansLink opens in a new window at Warwick 2027 (with T. Berrett, R. Christian, A. Papavasileiou, M. Tamborrino, D. Spanò and W. Xu). Member of the RSS Applied ProbabilityLink opens in a new window Section Committee 2025–. Workshop on Bootstrap Percolation & its ApplicationsLink opens in a new window at the Banff International Research Station 2024 (with J. Balogh, J. Gravner, K. Gunderson and R. Morris).

Seminars: At Warwick, I usually attend the Applied Probability SeminarLink opens in a new window, Combinatorics SeminarLink opens in a new window, Probability SeminarLink opens in a new window, and Statistical Mechanics SeminarLink opens in a new window. I also often attend the Oxford Discrete Mathematics and Probability Online SeminarLink opens in a new window.