I am an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at National Taiwan University. My main research interest is in probability theory, particularly various models in statistical physics.

Office: Astronomy Mathematics Building 506
Email: waikitlam(at)ntu.edu.tw
Background
Publications/Preprints
  1. (With A. Sen) Correlation decay for maximum weight matchings on sparse graphs. [arXiv]
  2. (With M. Damron) Asymptotics for first-passage percolation on logarithmic subgraphs of ℤ2. Annals of Applied Probability. [arXiv, Journal]
  3. (With S. Nakajima) Moderate deviations in first-passage percolation for bounded weights. Journal of Mathematical Physics. [arXiv, Journal]
  4. (With M. Damron, J. Hanson and D. Harper) Exceptional behavior in critical first-passage percolation and random sums. Electronic Journal of Probability. [arXiv, Journal]
  5. (With W.-K. Chen) Universality of superconcentration in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model. Random Structures & Algorithms. [arXiv, Journal]
  6. (With A. Sen) Central limit theorem in disordered monomer-dimer model. Random Structures & Algorithms. [arXiv, Journal]
  7. (With M. Damron, J. Gold and X. Shen) On the number and size of holes in the growing ball of first-passage percolation. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. [arXiv, Journal]
  8. (With M. Damron, J. Hanson and D. Harper) Transitions for exceptional times in dynamical first-passage percolation. Probability Theory and Related Fields. [arXiv, Journal]
  9. (With P. Nolin) Near-critical avalanches in 2D frozen percolation and forest fires. [arXiv]
  10. (With M. Damron, J. Hanson, C. Janjigian and X. Shen) Estimates for the empirical distribution along a geodesic in first-passage percolation. [arXiv]
  11. (With W.-K. Chen) Universality of approximate message passing algorithms. Electronic Journal of Probability. [arXiv, Journal]
  12. (With M. Damron and J. Hanson) Universality of the time constant for 2D critical first-passage percolation. Annals of Applied Probability. [arXiv, Journal]
  13. (With W.-K. Chen) Order of fluctuations of the free energy in the SK model at critical temperature. ALEA Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. [arXiv, Journal]
  14. (With M. Damron and J. Hanson) The size of the boundary in first-passage percolation. Annals of Applied Probability. [arXiv, Journal]
  15. (With M. Damron and X. Wang) Asymptotics for 2D critical first passage percolation. Annals of Probability. [arXiv, Journal]
Poster

This poster briefly explains my work on two dimensional critical first-passage percolation (1 and 4 above).
Gallery

Simulations of some stochastic spatial models.
Seminars

In Spring 2018, I organized a graduate student seminar on random matrix theory. Click here for the notes.

Probability Seminar on NTU Campus.

Student Probability seminar at NTU.
Teaching
Links

Random Growth Models by Michael Damron, Firas Rassoul-Agha, and Timo Seppäläinen