Victor Ginsburg

I am a fifth-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 partially supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. My CV is here (updated July 20, 2026).

My research interests lie in probability and its interactions with statistical physics, especially models of random geometry and stochastic growth.

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

Papers

• Temperature chaos in directed polymers. Joint with Shirshendu Ganguly and Zoe Himwich. Preprint. arXiv:2607.18194.
• Last passage percolation in hierarchical environments. Joint with Shirshendu Ganguly and Kyeongsik Nam. Annals of Probability (2026). 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. arXiv:2312.11439.
• 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

Spring 2026: GSI, MATH 52 (Calculus II) with Alexander Paulin, UC Berkeley

Fall 2025: GSI, STAT 134 (Concepts of Probability) with Shobhana Murali Stoyanov, UC Berkeley

Spring 2025: Reader, INDENG 222 (Financial Engineering Systems I) with Thibaut Mastrolia, UC Berkeley

Fall 2023: Reader, MATH 224A (Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences) with Svetlana Jitomirskaya, UC Berkeley

Spring 2023: GSI, MATH 54 (Linear Algebra and Differential Equations) with John Lott, UC Berkeley

Fall 2022: GSI, MATH 54 (Linear Algebra and Differential Equations) with Vera Serganova, UC Berkeley

Fall 2020: Grader, Math 311M/311W (Concepts of Discrete Mathematics) with Svetlana Katok, Penn State