Leonardo T. Rolla

Leonardo T. Rolla

Visiting Professor of Mathematics

Email: lr93@nyu.edu

Leonardo T. Rolla is a Visiting Professor of Mathematics at NYU Shanghai. He is also a Professor of Statistics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Rolla's research interests are on random walks, percolation and interacting particle systems. His work has appeared in Inventiones MathematicaeCommunications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Communications in Mathematical Physics, the Annals of Probability, Probability Theory and Related Fields, among others. Rolla obtained the PhD in 2008 from IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, then a fellowship from the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris in 2008 and the Excellence Postdoctorate from IMPA in 2010. He has previously been a Researcher at the Argentinean National Research Council, and a Reader at the University of Warwick.

Select Publications

  • C. Hoffman, J. Richey, L. T. Rolla. Active phase for activated random walk on Z. Communications in Mathematical Physics 399:717-735, 2023
  • L. T. Rolla, V. Sidoravicius. Stability of the Greedy Algorithm on the Circle. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 70:1961-1986, 2017
  • A. Deshayes, L. T. Rolla. Scaling Limit of Subcritical Contact Process. Stochastic Processes and their Applications 127:2630-2649, 2017
  • L. T. Rolla, V. Sidoravicius. Absorbing-State Phase Transition for Driven-Dissipative Stochastic Dynamics on Z. Inventiones Mathematicae 188:127-150, 2012