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Anirban Basak
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Email: [email protected]
November, 2016
E MPLOYMENT
Postdoctoral Fellow (August 2016-present)
Department of Mathematics
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Visiting Assistant Professor (August 2014 - July 2016)
Department of Mathematics
Duke University, NC, USA
A CADEMIC
D EGREES
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Ph.D. in Statistics, September 2009 - June 2014
Thesis Topic: Probability models on large random graphs and matrices
Thesis Advisor - Prof. Amir Dembo
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
• Master of Statistics (with Distinction), July 2007- May 2009
Specialization - Mathematical Statistics and Probability
Dissertation Topic: Large dimensional Random Matrices
Advisor: Prof. Arup Bose
• Bachelor of Statistics (Honors with Distinction), July 2004 - May 2007
AWARDS AND
F ELLOWSHIPS
1. AMS-Simons Travel Grant, July 2015 - June 2017.
2. Melvin and Joan Lane endowed Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, September 2009 - August 2012.
3. ISIAA Mrs. M. R. Iyer Gold Medal award for outstanding performance in Master of Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, March 2010.
4. M.A./M.Sc. Scholarship, National Board of Higher Mathematics, June 2007 May 2009.
5. J. M. Sengupta Gold Medal award for outstanding performance in Bachelor of
Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, February 2008.
P UBLICATIONS AND
P REPRINTS
1. Basak, A., Bhamidi, S., Chakraborty, S., and Nobel, A., “Large subgraphs in
pseudo-random graphs”. Preprint.
2. Basak, A., Durrett, R., and Foxall, E.“Diffusion limit for the partner model at
the critical value.” Preprint.
3. Basak, A., Durrett, R., and Zhang, Y., “The evolving voter model on thick
graphs”. Submitted.
4. Basak, A., and Rudelson, M., “Invertibility of sparse non-Hermitian matrices”.
Accepted in Advances in Mathematics modulo minor revision.
5. Basak, A., and Mukherjee, S., “Universality of mean-field for the Potts model”.
To appear in Probability Theory and Related Fields.
6. Basak, A. and Dembo, A., “Ferromagnetic Ising measures on large locally treelike graphs”. To appear in the Annals of Probability.
7. Basak, A., Bose, A., and Mukherjee, S. S., “Limiting spectral distribution of
a class of Hankel type random matrices”. To appear in Random Matrices:
Theory and Applications.
8. Basak, A., and Dembo, A., “Limiting spectral distribution of sum of unitary
and orthogonal matrices”. Electronic Communications in Probability, article
69, 2013.
9. Basak, A., Bose, A., and Sen, S., “Limiting spectral distribution of sample
autocovariance matrices”. Bernoulli Journal, 20, 3, 1234-1259.
10. Basak, A. and Bose, A., “Balanced random Toeplitz and Hankel Matrices”.
Electronic Communications in Probability, 15, 134-148.
11. Basak, A. and Bose, A., “Limting spectral distribution of some band matrices”.
Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, 63, 1, 113-150.
N EAR COMPLETION
1. Basak, A., and Rudelson, M.,“Spectrum of sparse non-Hermitian Matrices I:
Circular law”.
2. Basak, A., Dembo, A., and Sly, A.,“Ferromagnetic Potts models on large locally
tree-like graphs”.
3. Basak, A., and Rudelson, M.,“Spectrum of sparse non-Hermitian matrices II:
local circular law”.
R EFEREEING
T ALKS
Annals of Applied Probability, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Electronic Journal of Probability, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Probability Theory and Related Fields, Random Matrices: Theory and Applications.
• International Conference of The Indian Mathematics Consortium, Banaras
Hindu University, December 2016.
• Geometric Functional Analysis and Probability Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, Weizmann Institute, November 2016.
• Probability Seminar, Dept. of Statistics, Stanford University, May 2016; June,
2012.
• AMS Special Session on Discrete Probability, North Dakota State University,
April 2016.
• Probability Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Virginia, September
2015.
• Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit seminar, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, December 2014; August 2012.
• Probability Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, UCLA, October 2014; October
2013.
• Probability Seminar (joint), Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill, August
2014; September 2012.
• IISA conference at Irvine, CA, July 2014.
• Probability and Statistics Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, USC, December
2013.
• Probability Seminar, Dept. of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley,
September 2013.
• 36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, University
of Colorado Boulder, July 2013.
• Probability Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, MIT, September 2012.
• Probability and Mathematical Physics Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, New
York University, September 2012.
• Young Researchers Meet, Stanford University, May 2012.
• Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit seminar, ISI Delhi, August 2009.
• PCM International Symposium on Statistics, ISI Kolkata, July 2009.
T EACHING
E XPERIENCE
S UMMER
• Instructor: MATH 230 (undergraduate probability course), MATH 340 (advanced introduction to probability), MATH 541 (Master’s level probability course),
MATH 641 (graduate level probability course), MATH 690-40 (Topics course
on random matrices).
• Teaching Assistantship: STATS 310A, 310B, 310C (graduate level probability
course), STATS 218 (Master’s level probability course), STATS 116 (undergraduate probability course).
Trung Can, Summer 2016 at Duke University.
RESEARCH
SUPERVISION
O THER ACTIVITIES Co-organized probability seminar at Duke University during Spring, 2015.