Christina Goldschmidt

Information about my minicourse Scaling limits of random trees and random graphs at the PIMS-CRM Summer School in Probability 2017.

Research interests
- I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on various aspects of the structure of random hypergraphs, with particular emphasis on the use of stochastic process methods. I have worked extensively on processes of coagulation (or coalescence) and fragmentation. More recently, I have been working on scaling limits for random trees and graphs.
Brief academic CV
- B.A. and M.Math. in Mathematics at New Hall (now Murray Edwards College), University of Cambridge.
- Ph.D. in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, with James Norris.
- 2003-4: Postdoc in the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires at Université Paris VI with Jean Bertoin.
- 2004-7: Stokes Fellow in Mathematics at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
- 2007-9: EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.
- 2009-11: Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick.
- March 2011: Professeur invité at Université Paris-Sud (Orsay)
- February 2014: Professeur invité at Univeristé Paris-Dauphine.
- November 2016: Professeur invité at École polytechnique.
Slides from talks
- Slides from my plenary lecture at SPA in Oaxaca, 19th-24th July 2011.
- Slides from my IMS Medallion lecture at the World Congress in Toronto, 10th-15th July 2016.
Slides from minicourses
- Slides from four lectures on random trees, random graphs and fragmentation processes given at Warwick in April 2009: Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4.
- Slides and the handout from a lecture course given at the Young European Probabilists' Workshop on Probability, Random Trees and Algorithms, EURANDOM, 8th-12th March 2010.
- Slides from two lectures at the Dutch Stochastics Meeting in Lunteren, 12th-14th November 2012.
- Slides from a minicourse given at the ALEA in Europe Meeting, LMU Munich, 22nd-26th February 2016.
- Slides and exercise sheet from a minicourse given at the VIII Escuela de Probabilidad y Procesos Estocásticos, CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico, 12th-16th September 2016.
Essays and theses
- My Part III (approximately masters-level) essay entitled The Chen-Stein Method for Convergence of Distributions [.ps.gz (120kb)].
- My PhD thesis entitled Large Random Hypergraphs [.ps.gz (747kb)].
Teaching
- Lectures
  - Cambridge Part III Stochastic Calculus (2006)
  - Oxford Part B Applied Probability (2008)
  - Warwick ST202 Stochastic Processes (2010)
  - Oxford Mods/Prelims Probability (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015): course webpage
  - APTS Applied Stochastic Processes (2012, 2013, 2014): course webpage
  - OxWaSP Probability and Approximation Module (2014, 2015)
- Classes
  - Oxford Part B Applied Probability (2007-8, 2011-15): course webpage
  - Oxford Part C Probabilistic Combinatorics (2008)
- Tutorials
  - In Oxford, I have given tutorials on Prelims Probability, Prelims Statistics, Prelims Optimisation, Part A Probability, Part A Statistics and Part A Graph Theory to the LMH students.
    In Cambridge in the distant past, I supervised Part IA Probability (for both Maths and CS students), Part IB Markov Chains and Part II Probability and Measure.
- Supervision
  - I have acted as a coursework supervisor for the MSc in Applied Statistics
  - I have supervised Part C projects for Mathematics and Statistics students and masters dissertations for the MSc in Applied Statistics.
Postdocs and DPhil students
- Dominic Yeo (DPhil student, jointly supervised by James Martin)
- Eleonora Kreacic (DPhil student, jointly supervised by James Martin)
Former students and postdocs
- Sanchayan Sen, postdoc April-August 2016, now postdoc at McGill University
- Simon Griffiths, postdoc 2013-16, now faculty at PUC Rio de Janeiro.
- Benjamin Scellier, École polytechnique, stage de M1 (2013), now PhD student with Yoshua Bengio at Université de Montréal.
- Delphin Sénizergues, École normale supérieure (Paris), stage de M2 (2015), now PhD student with Nicolas Curien and Bénédicte Haas.
- Guillaume Conchon-Kerjan, École normale supérieure (Paris), stage de M2 (2016).
Co-authors
- Louigi Addario-Berry, Marie Albenque, Anne-Laure Basdevant, Jean Bertoin, Nicolas Broutin, Daphné Dieuleveut, Rui Dong, Bénédicte Haas, Olly Johnson, Grégory Miermont, James Martin, James Norris, Michał Przykucki, Dario Spanò, Daniel Ueltschi, Peter Windridge.
- My Erdős number is 3.