Sevak Mkrtchyan

Department of Mathematics--MS136
Rice University
6100 S. Main St.
Houston TX 77251-1892

Office: 456 Herman Brown Hall
E-mail: sm29(at)rice.edu

I am currently a G.C. Evans instructor at Rice University. I received a PhD from UC Berkeley in 2009 where I studied under the supervision of Nicolai Reshetikhin.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Research interests

Asymptotic representation theory, asymptotic combinatorics, random tilings, determinantal point processes and random matrix theory.

Publications and preprints

  1. Entropy of Schur-Weyl measures Submitted. 45 pages.
  2. Asymptotics of the maximal and the typical dimensions of isotypic components of tensor representations of the symmetric group to appear in European Journal of Combinatorics, special issue on "Groups, graphs, and languages". 25 pages.
  3. Scaling limits of random skew plane partitions with arbitrarily sloped back walls Communications in Mathematical Physics, 305(3):711-739, 2011. 39 pages.
  4. Random skew plane partitions with a piecewise periodic back wall (with C. Boutillier, N. Reshetikhin, P. Tingley.) Annales Henri Poincare. 13(2):271--296, 2012. 26 pages.
  5. Scaling limits of random skew plane partitions. PhD Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2009.
Work in progress on the entropy of beta ensembles.

Supervising activities

Special courses and lectures

Seminar's organized

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Teaching