Victor Ginsburg

I am a third-year math Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley advised by Shirshendu Ganguly and Svetlana Jitomirskaya. Previously I was an undergraduate at Penn State. I am supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

My CV is here (updated November 12, 2024).

Email: [firstname] [at] math [dot] berkeley [dot] edu
Office: 1065 Evans Hall
ORCID: 0000-0001-9399-6748

Research

  • Last passage percolation in hierarchical environments. Joint with Shirshendu Ganguly and Kyeongsik Nam. Preprint. arXiv:2411.08018.
  • Pinning, diffusive fluctuations, and Gaussian limits for half-space directed polymer models. Electronic Journal of Probability (2024). doi:10.1214/24-EJP1205.
  • On maps preserving Lie products equal to a rank-one nilpotent. Joint with Hayden Julius and Ricardo Velasquez. Linear Algebra and its Applications (2020). doi:10.1016/j.laa.2020.02.007.

Teaching

I have served as a GSI (teaching assistant) for the following courses at UC Berkeley:

Spring 2023: Math 54 (Linear Algebra and Differential Equations) with John Lott.

Fall 2022: Math 54 (Linear Algebra and Differential Equations) with Vera Serganova.

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