Oren Louidor's Home Page

Last update: Oct 4th, 2021

Contact information

Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Bloomfield Building, Office 306.
Technion - Israel's Institute of Technology.
Haifa 32000, Israel.
Homepage: http://ie.technion.ac.il/~olouidor.
Email: [first name].[last name]@gmail.com

I'm an associate professor in the faculty of industrial engineering and management at the Technion (Israel) and part of our cross-faculty probability group.

Teaching this fall (2021/22)

Mathematical foundations of deep learning (096401)
Course website (accessible with Technion credentials only).
Course syllabus.
Theory of Probability (098416)
Course website (accessible with Technion credentials only).
Course syllabus.

Research interests

Analysis of probabilistic models which emerge in various sciences (physics, computer sciences, economics, chemistry) using tools from probability, combinatorics and mathematical analysis.

Educational background

PhD in Mathematics. Courant Institute (New York University) . 2005 - 2010. Graduated with distinction.
MA. in Mathematics. Courant Institute (New York University) . 2005 - 2007.
MSc. in Operations Research. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology . 2004 - 2006. Summa Cum Laude.
BSc. in Computer Sciences. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology . 1995 - 2000. Summa Cum Laude.

Previous academic positions

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mathematics (Simons Fellow). 2010-2013. University of California Los Angeles.

Awards, scholarships and grants

Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) individual research grant. 2021-2025.
Binational Science Foundation (BSF) research grant (joint with Ron Rosenthal, Eviatar Procaccia and Marek Biskup). 2019-2023.
German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) young scientisits program grant. 2018.
Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) individual research grant. 2017-2021.
Marie Curie (EU) career integration grant. 2013-2017.
Simons postdoctoral fellowship. UCLA. 2010-2013.
Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award. NYU. 2010.
MacCracken PhD scholarship. NYU. 2005-2010. (Full PhD tuition and a monthly stipend).
Member of Technion's exceptionally gifted students program . Technion. 1996-2000.
Benin award for academic achievements.. 2002
Exceptional academic achievements award (awarded 8 times). Technion. 1995-2000.
Distinguished TA prize. 1999. Technion.

Papers

In preparation

[25] On the wetting transition for the discrete Gaussian free field on the binary tree (with A. Cortines and D. Ioffe).
[24] Percolation with clustering (with A. Cortines and D. Ioffe).
[23] On the growth of the pinned discrete Gaussian free field (with D. Yeo).
[22] Aging in logarithmically correlated fields (with A. Cortines and A. Svejda).

Submitted

[21] Near-maxima of the two-dimensional Discrete Gaussian Free Field (with M. Biskup and Stephan Gufler). Submitted (arXiv:2010.13939) arXiv.
[20] Ballot theorems for the two-dimensional discrete Gaussian free field. (with Stephan Gufler). Submitted (arXiv:2012.11467) arXiv.
[19] Large deviations for the empirical distribution in the general branching random walk (with E. Tsairi). Submitted (arXiv:1704.02374). arXiv.

Accepted

[18] A scaling limit for the cover time of the binary tree (with Aser Cortines and Santiago Saglietti). Advances in Mathematics 391 (2021), 107974. arXiv.
[17] More on the structure of extreme level sets in branching Brownian motion (with A. Cortines and L. Hartung). Electron. Commun. Probab. 26 (2021), paper no. 2. arXiv.
[16] A Strong Law of Large Numbers for Super-critical Branching Brownian Motion with Absorption (with Santiago Saglietti). . Journal of Statistical Physics 181.4 (2020), 1112-1137. arXiv.
[15] Conformal symmetries in the extremal process of two-dimensional discrete Gaussian free field (with M. Biskup). Commun. Math. Phys. 375 (2020) 175–235. arXiv.
[14] The structure of extreme level sets in branching Brownian motion (with A. Cortines and L. Hartung). The Annals of Probability 47.4 (2019): 2257-2302. arXiv.
[13] On intermediate level sets of two-dimensional discrete Gaussian free field (with M. Biskup). Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Probabilités et Statistiques. Vol. 55. No. 4. (2019). arXiv.
[12] Dynamical freezing in a spin glass system with logarithmic correlations (with A. Cortines and J. Gold). Electronic Journal of Probability. 23 (2018) paper no. 59. arXiv
[11] Full extremal process, cluster law and freezing for two-dimensional discrete Gaussian free field (with M. Biskup). Advances in Mathematics. 330 (2018) 589-687. arXiv.
[10] Exploring an infinite space with finite memory scouts (with L. Cohen, Y. Emek and J. Uitto). In proceedings of the 28th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) 207-224, 2017. arXiv.
[9] Extreme local extrema of two-dimensional discrete Gaussian free field (with M. Biskup). Communications in Mathematical Physics 345, no. 1 (2016): 271-304. arXiv.
[8] Distributional large deviations in the branching random walk (with William Perkins). Electronic Journal of Probability. 2015 Feb 24. arXiv.
[7] Isoperimetry in two dimensional percolation (with Marek Biskup, Eviatar Procaccia and Ron Rosenthal). Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 9, no. 68 (2015): 1483-1531. arXiv.
[6] The Williams Bjerknes Model on regular trees (with Ran Tessler and Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes). The Annals of Applied Probability 24 (2014), no. 5, 1889--1917. arXiv.
[5] Trapping in the random conductance model (with Marek Biskup, Alex Rozinov and Alexendar Vandenberg-Rode). Journal of Statistical Physics: Volume 150, Issue 1 (2013), Page 66-87. arXiv.
[4] Glauber dynamics for the mean field Potts model (with Paul Cuff, Jian Ding, Eyal Lubetzki, Yuval Peres and Allan Sly). Journal of Statistical Physics: Volume 149, Issue 3 (2012), Page 432-477. arXiv.
[3] Directed polymers in random environment with heavy tails (with Antonio Auffinger). Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 64 183-204(2011) arXiv.
[2] Finite connections for super-critical Bernoulli bond percolation in 2D (with Dmitry Ioffe and Massimo Campanino). Anniversary issue of Mark. Proc. Rel. Fields 16, 225-266 (2010). arXiv.
[1] Fixation for distributed clustering processes (with Marcelo R. Hilario, Charles M. Newman, Leonardo T. Rolla, Scott Sheffield and Vladas Sidoravicius). Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 63 926-934 (2010) arXiv.
[0] Pinning phenomena and models of directed polymers Preprint (MSc. Thesis). PDF.

Slides:

Extreme and large values of the discrete Gaussian free field. PDF
Dynamical freezing in a spin-glass with logarithmic correlations. PDF
Glauber dynamics for the mean field Potts model. PDF.
Directed polymers in random environment with heavy tails. PDF.
Finite connections for super-critical Bernoulli bond percolation in 2D. PDF.

Postdocs

Maximilian Fels (9/2021 - present).
Santiago Saglietti (10/2017 - 2/2021).
Stephan Gufler (11/2017 - 5/2021).
Dominic Yeo (9/2016 - 4/2019).
Aser Cortines (9/2015 - 9/2017).
Adela Svejda (1/2014 - 7/2014).

Graduate Students

Lihi Cohen (Graduated 5/2017).
Eliad Tsairi (Graduated 5/2017).

Conference and Seminar Organization

The third Haifa probability school. (2020).
The second Haifa probability school. (2017).
SPRGF2015. A workshop in honor of Robert Adler and Haya Kaspi's 35th year at the Technion (2015).

Recent Teaching

Theory of Probability (measure based). Fall 2019.
Random Interface Models . Fall 2016/17.
The discrete Gaussian free field and related topics. Fall 2013.

Lecture ntoes

Extreme and large values of the 2D discrete Gaussian free field. Notes for minicourse given in KAIST (Korea) in Summer of 2018.
Theory of probability (measure based). Beautifully written by Boaz Shuval (based on a course with a similar name, given in Fall 2017/18 at Technion).

Non-academic employment

Summer Associate. JPMorgan Chase . New York, NY. Summer 2007.
Software Team Leader. RAFEAL Advanced Defense Systems. Israel. 2004 - 2005.
Software Developer. RAFAEL Advanced Defense Systems. Israel. 2002 - 2004.
Software Developer. Israeli Defense Force - Intelligence . Israel. 2000 - 2002.
Software Developer. Zoran Corporation . Israel. 2000.