Matthew Nicoletti
Szego Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
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I am a Szego Assistant Professor (and NSF postdoc) in the Department of Mathematics at Stanford University. Before coming to Stanford, I was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley and completed my PhD in mathematics at MIT under the supervision of Alexei Borodin.
Research interests
I am interested in universal phenomena in probability theory and statistical physics; for example, I study interacting particle systems (similar to the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process) and lattice models (similar to the Ising model). I believe integrable systems and exactly solvable models, aside from being physically relevant special cases, are extremely useful tools to better understand universal phenomena, even beyond special cases; moreover, integrable systems are deep and beautiful mathematical objects in and of themselves. Therefore, my work often combines tools of analysis and probability with the more combinatorial and algebraic framework of integrability / exact solvability.
Former institutions
- Stanford University, Szego Assistant Professor (2025-present).
- University of California, Berkeley, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-2025).
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD in Mathematics (2024). Advisor: Alexei Borodin.
- University of California, Berkeley, BA in Mathematics and Computer Science (2019).
