Postdoc and PhD Students

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Postdocs mentoring

• Hanna Oppermayer (currently Israel); will start as postdoc in my group in September 2022.
• Yuwen Wang (postdoc since October 2021); previously at Cornell University.

PhD mentoring

• Robin Kaiser (PhD student since March 2022).

Committee member/examiner

• Hanna Oppelmayer (Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden)
  I was grading committee member for the PhD defence. October 2020.

Master theses

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In progress (2022+)

• Andrea Niederkofler
  Thesis: Frog models of random walks.

Completed

• Robin Marc Kaiser
  Thesis: Sandpile models. (2022)
• Barbara Laura Präg
  Thesis: Random graphs with applications to social networks. (2021)

I am currently supervising Bachelor and Master Theses in the area of stochastics at the University of Innsbruck. A (not updated) list with possible topics can be found here Topics for master theses. If you have any other suggestions, I would be happy to accomodate you, if this fits in my area of expertise. Just come for a chat (virtual one) and we can find something suitable, depending on your mathematical interests.
If you have good programming skills, there are several topics available that involve simulations (Python, R, or whatever you want) of random processes.

Some possible topics

I will list here some possible topics that are suitable for a master thesis, or some topics I would like to learn more about them, but didn't have time to do it.

• Quantum random walks (together with Tim Netzer)
• Epidemic models
• The Ising model
• Activated random walks

Bachelor Theses

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In progress (2022+)

• Nadine Durnwalder
  Thesis: SIR epidemic models.
• Mattea Pötzi
  Thesis: Stochastic games--the game of Hex, Hunter and Rabbit.
• Elias Walder
  Thesis: Coupon collector's problem.

Completed

• Georg Fischer
  Thesis: Markov chains and mixing times for card shuffling. (2021)
• Morris-Luca Kühmeier
  Thesis: Branching processes. (2021)
• Joshua Haag
  Thesis: Simple random walks on integer lattices. (2020)

General information and requirements: The courses Stochastics 1 and Stochastics 2 are needed (=passed) for the topics that involve stochastic processes. The thesis can be written in English or German. A list with available/potential topics can be found here Topics for bachelor thesis.