Mathematical Research

Interests

• Probability theory
  • Random matrix theory: general β-ensembles, one-dimensional Schrödinger operators
  • Multiplicative cascades

Education

• University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Department of Mathematics
  • Ph.D., September 2014
  • Advisor: Bálint Virág
  • Thesis: Two Multiplicative Processes

Papers

• Diffusions of Multiplicative Cascades, Alberts T. & Rifkind B., Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 124, no. 2, 1141-1169. (2014).
• The Shape of the Eigenvectors of the Random Schrödinger Operator (preprint), Rifkind, B. & Virág, B.

Talks

• The shape of the Eigenvectors of the one-dimensional Random Schrödinger Operator
  December 2014, University of Utah Probability Seminar
• Eigenvectors of the one-dimensional Random Schrödinger Operator
  December 2013, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• A Stochastic Version of Multiplicative Cascades
  October 2013, University of Toronto Probability Seminar
• A Model of Time Evolving β-ensembles
  May 2012, Budapest University of Technology and Economics