Stefan Adams Associate Professor (Reader)  Office: B2.18  Phone: +44 (0) 24 7652 3571  Email: S dot Adams at warwick dot ac dot uk

Teaching Responsibilities 2012/13:
Term 1: Large Deviations and Statistical Mechanics (Taught Course Centre module); module website
Term 2: MA3H2 Markov Processes and Percolation Theory

Research Interests: Large deviation theory, probability theory, Brownian motions, statistical mechanics, gradient models, multiscale systems

Lecture Notes: 
Lecture Notes - Vectoranalysis MA231
Lecture Notes - Mathematical Statistical Mechanics, TVI/TMP-K3, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich
Lecture Notes - FunctionalanalysisII  
 
Most relevant recent publications:  

Adams, S., Large deviations for stochastic processes, lecture notes (2012).

Adams, S., Kotecký, R., Müller, S., Strict convexity of the surface tension for non-convex potentials, (2012).

Adams, S., Kotecký, R., Müller, S., Finite range decomposition for families of gradient Gaussian measures, JFA 264, 169-206 (2012).

Adams, S., Dirr, N., Peletier, M., Zimmer, J., Large deviations and gradient flows, preprint arXiv:1201.4601, to appear in Phil. Trans A (2012).

Adams, S., Dirr, N., Peletier, M., Zimmer, J., From a large deviations principle to the Wasserstein gradient flow: a new micro-macro passage, Comm. Math. Phys. 307:791-815 (2011).
Adams, S., Collevechio, A., and König, W., A variational formula for the free energy of an interacting many-particle system, Annals of Probab. 39, Number 2, 683-728 (2011).
Adams, S., Large deviations for empirical measures in cycles of integer partitions and their relation to systems of Bosons, Analysis and Stochastics of Growth Processes, LMS, Oxford University Press, 148-172 (2008).
Adams, S. and W. König, Large deviations for many Brownian bridges with symmetrised initial-terminal condition, Probab. Theory Rel. Fields, Volume 142, Numbers 1-2, 79-124, (2008).
Adams, S. and T. Dorlas, C$^*$-algebraic approach to the Bose-Hubbard model, Journal of Mathematical Physics 48, 103304-(1-14) (2007).
Adams, S. and T. Dorlas, Asymptotic Feynman-Kac formulae for large symmetrised systems of random walks, Annales de l'institut Henri Poincaré (B) Probabilité et Statistiques, Volume 44, No. 5, 837-875 (2008).
Adams, S. and J.-B. Bru and W. König, Large systems of path-repellent Brownian motions in a trap at positive temperature, EJP Vol 11, 460-485 (2006).
Adams, S. and J.-B. Bru and W. König, Large deviations for trapped interacting Brownian particles and paths, Annals of Probab. 34, 1340-1422 (2006).
Adams, S. and J.-B. Bru, A New Microscopic Theory of Superfluidity at all Temperatures, Annales Henri Poincaré. 5, 435-476 (2004).
Adams, S. and J.-B. Bru, Exact Solution of the AVZ-Hamiltonian in the Grand-Canonical Ensemble, Annales Henri Poincaré. 5, 405-434 (2004).

Workshops/conferences/seminars:
Warwick Statistical Mechanics Seminar 
Workshop Gradient Models and Elasticity (Warwick) 
Conference in honour of Hans-Otto Georgii at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München

Recent research grants:
First grant: (100% for 2011-12)

Recent awards & prizes:

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