Prof. Dr. Erwin Bolthausen

Institut für Mathematik
Universität Zürich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zürich

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Vita

Personal data

  • Date of birth: October 15, 1945 in Rohr (AG) Switzerland
  • Citizenship: Switzerland


Education

  • ETH Zürich, Dr. Sc. Math., 1973
  • University of Konstanz, Habilitation, 1978


Positions

  • Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Frankfurt, 1978-1979
  • Full Professor of Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin, 1979-1990
  • Full Professor of Mathematics, University of Zürich, 1990-present


Professional activities

  • Annals of Statistics, Assoc. Editor, 1987-1989
  • Annals of Probability, Assoc. Editor, 1988-1993
  • Probability Theory and Related Fields, Editor-in-chief, 1994-2000
  • Probability Theory and Related Fields, Assoc.Editor, since 2000
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds, Member of the Stiftungsrat, since 1994
  • Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach, Member of Scientific Council, 1995-2002
  • Institute of Mathematics, University of Zürich, Chairman, September 1998-September 2001
  • Ecole d'Eté St. Flour, Member of the Scientific Committee, since 2002
  • EURANDOM Institute, Eindhoven, Member of the Scientific Council, since 2002


Selected invited lectures

  • Congress of the European Mathematical Society, Budapest 1998: Invited Lecture
  • World Congress of the Bernoulli Society, Vienna 1998: Special Invited Lecture
  • World Congress of the Bernoulli Society, Guanajuata, Mexico, 2000: Special Invited IMS Lecture
  • International Congress of Mathematics, Beijing, China, 2002: Invited Lecture

Publikationen

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Publications since 1993Publications to download: Front end for the Mathematics ArXiv

Erwin Bolthausen, F.X. , Alessandra Cipriani, Noemi Kurt (2016). Exponential decay of covariances for the supercritical membrane model

Michiel van den Berg, Erwin Bolthausen, Frank den Hollander (2016). Torsional rigidity for regions with a Brownian boundary

Erwin Bolthausen, Alessandra Cipriani, Noemi Kurt (2016). Fast decay of covariances under δ−pinning in the critical and supercritical membrane model

Erwin Bolthausen, Remco van der Hofstad, Gady Kozma (2015). Lace expansion for dummies

Erwin Bolthausen, Wolfgang König, Chiranjib Mukherjee (2015). Mean-Field interacton of Brownian occupation measures. II: A rigorous construction of the Pekar process

Erwin Bolthausen, Taizo Chiyonobu, Tadahisa Funaki (2014). Scaling limits for weakly pinned Gaussian random fields under the presence of two possible candidates

Erich Baur, Erwin Bolthausen. Exit laws from large balls of (an)isotropic random walks in random environment

Luca Avena, Erwin Bolthausen, Christine Ritzmann. A local CLT for convolution equations with an application to weakly self-avoiding random

Erwin Bolthausen (2012). An iterative construction of solutions of the TAP equations for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model. January 2012

Erwin Bolthausen, Frank den Hollander, Alex A. Opoku (2011). A copolymer near a selective interface: variational characterization of the free energy. October 2011

Erwin Bolthausen, Nicola Kistler (2010). A quenched large deviation principle and a Parisi formula for a Perceptron version of the GREM. November 2010

Erwin Bolthausen (2010). Bernoullis Gesetz der Grossen Zahlen. DOI 10.4171/EM/153

Erwin Bolthausen, Jean-Dominique Deuschel, Ofer Zeitouni (2010). Recursions and tightness for the maximum of the discrete, two dimensional Gaussian Free Field. June 2010

Erwin Bolthausen, Nicola Kistler (2008). On a non-hierarchical generalization of the Generalized Random Energy Model, part II: The Gibbs distribution and ultrametricity. Stoch. Proc. and Appl. 119, 7, 2357 - 2386(2009)

Erwin Bolthausen, Francesco Caravenna, Béatrice de Tilière (2008). The quenched critical point of a diluted disordered polymer model. Stoch. Proc. and Appl. 119, 5, 1479 - 1504(2009)

Erwin Bolthausen, Nicola Kistler (2008). On a nonhierarchical version of the Generalized Random Energy Model. II. Ultrametricity.. arXiv:0802.3436

Erwin Bolthausen, Nicola Kistler (2008). Universal structures in some mean field spin glasses, and an application. J. Math. Phys. 49(12), 125205-125205-17(2008)

Erwin Bolthausen, Tadahisa Funaki, Tatsushi Otobe (2009). Concentration under scaling limits for weakly pinned Gaussian random walks. Prob. Theory Rel. Fields 143(3-4), 441 - 480(2009)

Erwin Bolthausen, Ilya Goldsheid (2008). Lingering random walks in random environment on a strip. Comm. Math. Phys. 278, 253 - 288(2008)

Erwin Bolthausen (2007). Spin Glasses. Springer LNM 1900, 2007 (edited with A. Bovier)

Erwin Bolthausen, Ofer Zeitouni (2005). Multiscale analysis of exit distributions for random walks in random environments. Prob. Theory Rel. Fields 138, 581 - 645 (2007) [pdf]

Erwin Bolthausen (2006). On the proof of the Parisi formula by Guerra and Talagrand. Astérisque 307 (2006)

Erwin Bolthausen, Amir Dembo, Francis Comets. Large deviations for random matrices and random graphs. Preprint

Erwin Bolthausen, Nicola Kistler (2004). On a non-hierarchical version of the Generalized Random Energy Model. Annals of Appl. Prob. 16, 1 - 14 (2006) [pdf]

Erwin Bolthausen, Giambattista Giacomin (2005). Periodic copolymers at selected interfaces: Free energy and critical line. Annals of Applied Probability 15, 963 - 983 (2005)

Michiel van den Berg, Erwin Bolthausen, Frank den Hollander (2005). Brownian survival among Poissonian traps with random shapes at critical intensity. Prob. Theory and Rel. Fields 132, 163 - 202 (2005) [pdf]

Erwin Bolthausen, Michiel van den Berg, Frank den Hollander (2004). On the volume of the intersection of two Wiener sausages. Annals of Mathematics 159, 741-782 (2004)

Erwin Bolthausen, Alain-Sol Sznitman, Ofer Zeitouni (2003). Cut points and diffusive random walks in random environment. Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré PR 93, 527-555 (2003)

Erwin Bolthausen, Alain-Sol Sznitman. Ten Lectures on Random Media. Lecture Notes for the DMV-Seminar on Random Media, Oberwolfach 1999, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2002

Erwin Bolthausen, Michiel van den Berg (2002). Area versus capacity and solidification in the crushed ice model. Prob. Theory Rel. Fields 130, 69 - 108 (2004)

Erwin Bolthausen, Christine Ritzmann. Strong pointwise estimates for weakly self-avoiding random walks. To appear in Ann. Prob.

Erwin Bolthausen, Alain-Sol Sznitman (2001). On the static and dynamic points of views for certain random walks in random environment. Methods and Applications of Analysis, 9, 345-376 (2002), dedicated to 60th birthday of D.W. Stroock and SRS Varadhan [pdf]

Erwin Bolthausen (2002). Localization-delocalization phenomena for random interfaces. Proceedings of the ICM, Beijing 2002, vol. 3, 25-40 [pdf]

Erwin Bolthausen, Sergio Albeverio, Z. Zhou. On the discrete Edwards model in three dimensions. In "Collected Papers of Zhou Xianyin", Beijing Normal University Modern Mathematical Series 10, 1031-1059 (2002) [pdf]

Erwin Bolthausen (2002). Localization-delocalization effects for random interfaces. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. III, 25-40. Higher Education Press, Beijing 2002

Erwin Bolthausen (1999). Large deviations and interacting random walks. Ecole d'Eté St. Flour 1999, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematiques 1741, 2002

Erwin Bolthausen, Yvan Velenik. Critical behavior of the 2d massless free field at the depinning transition. Comm. Math. Phys. 223, 161-203, (2001). (Copyright with Springer) [pdf]

Erwin Bolthausen, Karin Münch-Berndl. Quantitative estimates for discrete harmonic measures. Israel J. Math. 124, 125-141 (2001)

Erwin Bolthausen, D. Brydges. Localization and decay of correlations for a pinned lattice free field in dimension two. IMS Lecture Notes Series 36, 134-149, IMS, Beachwood, OH, 2001

Erwin Bolthausen, Michiel van den Berg, Frank den Hollander (2001). Moderate deviations for the Wiener sausage. Annals of Mathematics 153, 355-406 (2001)

Erwin Bolthausen, Jean-Dominique Deuschel, Giambattista Giacomin (2001). Entropic repulsion for the lattice free field: The two dimensional case. Annals of Probability 29, 1670-1692 (2001)

Erwin Bolthausen, Ilya Goldsheid. Random walks in random environments on a strip. Comm. Math. Phys. 214, 429-447 (2000)

Erwin Bolthausen (2000). Random walk representations and entropic repulsion for gradient models. In "Infinite Dimensional Analysis", Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 55-84, Amsterdam 2000

Erwin Bolthausen, Jean-Dominique Deuschel, Ofer Zeitouni. Absence of a wetting transition for a pinned harmonic crystal in dimension three and larger. J. of Math. Phys. 41, 1211-1223 (2000)

Michiel van den Berg, Erwin Bolthausen. Estimates for Dirichlet eigenfunctions. J. London Math. Soc. 59, 607-619 (1999)

Erwin Bolthausen, Alain-Sol Sznitman. On Ruelle's probability cascades and an abstract cavity method. Comm. Math. Phys. 197, 247-276 (1998)

Erwin Bolthausen. Large deviations and perturbations of random walks and random surfaces. European Congress of Mathematics 1996, A. Balog et al eds., Birkhäuser 1998, 108-120

Erwin Bolthausen, Dmitry Ioffe. The harmonic crystal on the wall: A microscopic approach. Comm. Math. Phys., 187, 523-566, (1997)

Erwin Bolthausen, Frank den Hollander. Localization transition for a polymer near an interface. Ann. Prob., 25, 1334-1366, (1997)

Erwin Bolthausen, Michiel van den Berg. On the expected volume of the Wiener sausage for the Brownian bridge. Mathematische Zeitschrift 224, 33-48 (1997)

Erwin Bolthausen, Uwe Schmock. Self-attracting d-dimensional random walks. Ann. Prob. 25, 531-572 (1997)

Erwin Bolthausen, Jean-Dominique Deuschel, Ofer Zeitouni. On entropy repulsion for the lattice free field. Comm. Math. Physics 170, 417-444 (1995)

Erwin Bolthausen, Jean-Dominique Deuschel, Y. Tamura (2000). Laplace approximations for large deviations of nonreversible Markov processes. Ann. Prob. 23, 236-267 (1995)

Erwin Bolthausen, Uwe Schmock. On self-attracting random walks. Proceedings of the AMS-Summer School on Stochastic Analysis, Cornell 1993, eds.: M. Cranston and M. Pinsky

Erwin Bolthausen, Michiel van den Berg. Asymptotics of the generating function for the volume of the Wiener sausage. Probability Theory and Related Fields 99, 389-397 (1994)

Erwin Bolthausen. Localization of a two dimensional random variable with a self-attracting path interaction. Ann. of Prob. 22, 875-918 (1994)

Erwin Bolthausen, Frank den Hollander. Survival asymptotics for Brownian motion in a Poisson field of decaying traps. Ann. Prob. 22, 160-176 (1994)

Erwin Bolthausen, Jean-Dominique Deuschel. Critical large deviations for an interacting Gaussian field. Ann. of Prob. 21, 1876-1920 (1994)

Erwin Bolthausen, Jean-Dominique Deuschel, Uwe Schmock. Convergence of path measures for models with polaron and mean-field type interactions. Prob. Theory and Rel. Fields 95, 283-310 (1993)

Erwin Bolthausen. On the construction of the three dimensional polymer measure. Probability Theory and Rel. Fields 98, 81-101 (1993)

Erwin Bolthausen, Friedrich Götze. Rates of convergence in multivariate sampling statistics. Ann. of Stat. 21, 1692-1710 (1993)