WEI-KUO CHEN. Research/Teaching Assistant, September 2009-June 2012 Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine, USA

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1 WEI-KUO CHEN School of Mathematics University of Minnesota 235 Vincent Hall 206 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN Homepage: wkchen/ PARTICULAR Education Ph.D. in Mathematics, September 2009-June 2012 University of California at Irvine (UC Irvine), USA Advisor: Dr. Michael Cranston Thesis: Chaos Problem in Mean Field Spin Glasses MS in Applied Mathematics, September 2004-June 2006 National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan Advisor: Dr. Yuan-Chung Sheu Thesis: Mixing Time for Burnside Processes BS in Mathematics, September 2000-June 2004 National Central University (NCU), Taiwan Employment Assistant Professor, September 2015 to present School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, USA L.E. Dickson Instructor, September 2012-August 2015 Research/Teaching Assistant, September 2009-June 2012 Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine, USA Research Assistant, April 2008-August 2009 Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Academic Honors and Memberships Kovalevsky Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, UC Irvine, 2012 Phi Tau Phi Membership, The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society, 2003 Chow Hung-Ching Scholarship, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 2003 Book Prize, Department of Mathematics, NCU, 2001 & 2002 Grants and Fellowships PI, NSF DMS , Some problems on mean-field spin glasses Co-PI, Hong Kong Research Grants Council GRF , Asymptotic Theory of Mean field Spin Glass Models (with PI Qi-Man Shao, Professor, Department of Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong) AMS-Simons Travel Grant, Graduate Student Researcher Stipend, UC Irvine, Spring & Winter, 2010 Departmental Fellowship, UC Irvine, 2009, Fall 2010 & Fall 2011-Spring 2012

2 RESEARCH Wei-Kuo Chen 2/5 Research Interests Probability theory, Stochastic dynamics, Spin glasses and Random Matrices. Preprints (with Dmitry Panchenko) Temperature chaos in some spherical mixed p-spin models. Preprint available at arxiv: (2016) (with Antonio Auffinger) Parisi formula for the ground state energy in the mixed p-spin model. Preprint available at arxiv: (2016) (with Antonio Auffinger) A duality principle in spin glasses. Preprint available at arxiv: (2016) (with Arnab Sen) Parisi formula, disorder chaos and fluctuation for the ground state energy in the spherical mixed p-spin models. Preprint available at arxiv: (2015) Variational representations for the Parisi functional and the two-dimensional Guerra-Talagrand bound. Preprint available at arxiv: (2015) Limit Theorems in the Imitative Monomer-Dimer Mean-Field Model via Steins Method. To appear in J. Math. Phys. Preprint available at arxiv: (with Partha Dey and Dmitry Panchenko) Fluctuations of the free energy in the mixed p-spin models with external field. To appear in Probab. Theory Related Fields. Preprint available at arxiv: (with Antonio Auffinger) The Legendre structure of the Parisi formula. To appear in Comm. Math. Phys. Preprint available at arxiv: (with Dmitry Panchenko) Some examples of quenched self-averaging of models with Gaussian disorder. To appear in Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré Probab. Stat. Preprint available at arxiv: (with Antonio Auffinger) Universality of chaos and ultrametricity in mixed p-spin models. To appear in Comm. Pure Appl. Math. Preprint available at arxiv: Journal Publications (with Nikos Dafnis and Grigoris Paouris) Improved Hölder and reverse Hölder inequalities for Gaussian random vectors. Adv. Math., Vol. 280, (2015) (with Hsi-Wei Hsieh, Chii-Ruey Hwang, Yuan-Chung Sheu) Disorder chaos in the spherical mean-field model. J. Stat. Phys., Vol. 160, No. 2, (2015) (with Antonio Auffinger) The Parisi formula has a unique minimizer. Comm. Math. Phys., Vol. 335, No. 3, (2015) Partial results on the convexity of the Parisi functional with PDE approach. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 143, (2015) (with Antonio Auffinger) On properties of Parisi measures. Probab. Theory Related Fields, Vol. 161, No. 3, (2015) (with Antonio Auffinger) Free energy and complexity of spherical bipartite models. J. Stat. Phys., Vol. 157, No. 1, (2014) Chaos in the mixed even-spin models. Comm. Math. Phys., Vol. 328, No. 3, (2014) On the Mixed even-spin Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model with ferromagnetic interaction. Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré Probab. Stat., Vol. 50, No. 1, (2014) The Aizenman-Sims-Starr scheme and Parisi formula for mixed p-spin spherical models. Electron. J. Probab., Vol. 18, No. 94, 1-14 (2013) (with Dmitry Panchenko) An approach to chaos in some mixed p-spin models. Probab. Theory Related Fields, Vol. 157, No. 1, (2013) Disorder Chaos in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model with external field. Ann. Probab., Vol. 41, No. 5, (2013)

3 Wei-Kuo Chen 3/5 Central limit theorems for cavity and local fields of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model. Electron. J. Probab., Vol. 18, No. 2, 1-25 (2013) (with Ting-Li Chen, Chii-Ruey Hwang, and Hui-Ming Pai) On the optimal transition matrix for MCMC sampling. SIAM J. Control Optim., Vol. 50, No. 5, (2012) Conference Proceedings On convergence of the magnetization and pure p-spin Hamiltonians at the ground state in spherical mixed p-spin models. To appear in the Proceedings of XVIII International Congress of Mathematical Physics TEACHING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Spring 2016 MATH5652: Introduction to Stochastic Processes Fall 2015 MATH5652: Introduction to Stochastic Processes Instructor, University of Chicago Spring 2015 MATH16300: Honors Calculus III & MATH20500: Analysis in R n III Fall 2014 MATH16100: Honors Calculus I & MATH20300: Analysis in R n I Spring 2014 MATH16300: Honors Calculus III Winter 2014 MATH16200: Honors Calculus II Spring 2013 MATH16300: Honors Calculus III & MATH22000: Intro Math Methods For Physics Winter 2013 MATH16200: Honors Calculus II Fall 2012 MATH16100: Honors Calculus I Teaching Assistant, UC Irvine Winter 2012 MATH205C: Introduction to Graduate Analysis (Graduate level) Spring 2012 MATH205B: Introduction to Graduate Analysis (Graduate level) Fall 2011 MATH2J: Linear Algebra and Infinite Series Summer 2011 MATH2B: Calculus Grader, UC Irvine Spring 2009 Winter 2009 Winter 2009 Fall 2009 MATH140B: Elementary Analysis & MATH140C: Analysis of Several Variables MATH140B: Elementary Analysis MATH120B: Introduction to Group Theory MATH140A: Elementary Analysis Teaching Assistant, NCTU Fall 2004-Spring 2006 Elementary Analysis ADVISING AND MENTORING University of Minnesota Ph.D. student: Madeline Handschy (current, co-supervision with professor Gilad Lerman) Undergraduate senior project: Siyao Gu (Spring 2016) ACTITIVIES Invited Conferences, Workshops and Meetings Phase transitions in discrete structures, July Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany The 9th World Congress of Probability and Statistics, July Field Institute, Canada The 4th IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting, June The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

4 Wei-Kuo Chen 4/5 Workshop on Percolation, Spin Glasses and Random Media, May Northwestern University, USA Special Session on Discrete Probability, April AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session, North Dakota State University, USA Probability and Statistical Mechanics, December Winter Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Probability Theory, October AMS Fall Central Sectional Meeting, Loyola University Chicago, USA XVIII International Congress on Mathematical Physics, July 27-August Santiago, Chile IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability, July Yunnan University in Kunming, China Stochastic Processes and Related Topics, March AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA Spin Glasses, Random Graphs and Percolation, February Institute of Henri Poincaré, France Spin Glasses and Related Topics, July Banff International Research Station, Canada 10th Cornell Probability Summer School, July Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, USA Workshop on Disordered Systems, June CIRM, Marseille, France Invited Seminars and Colloquiums Analysis and Probability Seminar, March 30-April Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, USA Probability Seminar, March Department of Mathematics, CUNY, USA Probability and Statistics Seminar, July Department of Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Probability and Random Matrix Seminar, April CMSA, Harvard University, USA Quantifying Uncertainty, Probability Entropy and Disorder, March Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, USA Probability Seminar, February Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, UIC at Chicago, USA Recruitment Talk, December Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, USA Recruitment Talk, December Department of Mathematical Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Probability Seminar, December Department of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Probability Seminar, November Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, USA Probability and Related Fields Seminar, September Department of Mathematics, University of Indiana, USA Probability Seminar, July Institute of Mathematics, Academic Sinica, Taiwan Probability Seminar, July Department of Applied Mathematics, NCTU, Taiwan Probability Seminar, February 2014

5 Wei-Kuo Chen 5/5 Colloquium, November Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Probability Seminar, October Department of Mathematics, Ecole Normale Supérieure of Lyon, France Probability Seminar, October Department of Mathematics, ETH, Switzerland Probability Seminar, November Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Probability Seminar, October Probability Seminar, January Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego, USA Probability Seminar, January School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, USA Mathematical Physics Seminar, November Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine, USA Academic Visits Department of Statistics, Chinese University of Hong Kong July & June 21-July Sponsor: Professor Qi-Man Shao SERVICES Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M, December Sponsor: Professor Grigoris Paouris Institut für Mathematik, Universität Zürich, October 14-November Sponsor: Professor Erwin Bolthausen Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M, August Sponsor: Professor Dmitry Panchenko Organizer Probability Seminar, University of Minnesota Scientific Committee of the 38th Midwest Probability Colloquium Probability and Statistical Physics Seminar, University of Chicago, Refereed Journal Articles Annals of Probability Reviewed Articles Mathscinet Annales de línstitut Henri Poincaré Electronic Journal of Probability Electronic Communications in Probability Journal of Theoretical Probability Probability Theory and Related Fields Proceedings of the Royal Society A The European Physical Journal B