Wei Wu

Associate Professor of Mathematics at NYU Shanghai

Email: ww44@nyu.edu

Homepage Link: https://sites.google.com/view/weiwu-nyushanghai

Dr. Wei Wu is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at NYU Shanghai. Before joining NYU Shanghai, he held academic positions as an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick and a Courant Instructor at New York University. He works in probability, mathematical physics and partial differential equations, especially in Gibbs random fields, spin models, phase transitions and homogenization.

Select Publications 

  • Tightness of the maximum of the Ginzburg-Landau fields, with Florian Schweiger and Ofer Zeitouni, arXiv preprint
  • Massless phases for the Villain model in d >=3, with Paul Dario,  Asterisque, volume 447, (2024),  Journal,  arXiv preprint (Long version)
  • C^2 regularity of the surface tension for the $\nabla \phi$-interface model, with Scott Armstrong, Communications on Pure and Applied Math, Volume75,  Issue2, (2022),  Journal
  • Four dimensional loop-erased random walk, with Gregory Lawler and Xin Sun, Annals of Probability 2019, Vol. 47, No. 6
  • Critical Percolation and the Minimal Spanning Tree in Slabs, with Charles Newman and Vincent Tassion, Communications on Pure and Applied Math, Volume 70, Issue 11, (2017)

Education

  • PhD, Applied Math
    Brown University
  • BSc, Physics
    Fudan University

Research Interests

  • Probability
  • Mathematical Physics