I am a senior lecturer of the Department of Mathematics at Bar-
Ilan University. I have recently
returned from a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of
Toronto, followed by a 3 month position at the Weizmann Institute of
Science. Before that I obtained my Ph.D.
in Mathematics at The Weizmann Institute under the supervision of
Prof. Itai
Benjamini.
My research field is probability theory, with an emphasis on problems
in discrete probability with a geometric flavor.
My research interests include, (but are not
limited to) : self interacting random walks, interacting particle
systems and exclusion processes, stochastic growth models,
probability on groups, percolation and random graphs .
For a more complete list (updated 6/2011), with abstracts, press here.
Speed exponents of random walks on groups
G. Amir and B. Virag [Pdf] [Arxiv]
Probability Distribution of the Free Energy of the
Continuum
Directed Random
Polymer in 1+1 dimensions
G. Amir, I. Corwin and J. Quastel
Accepted for publication in Communications in Pure and Applied
Math [Pdf] [Arxiv]
The TASEP speed Process
G. Amir, O. Angel and B. Valko Accepted for publication in the Annals
of Probability [Pdf]
[Arxiv]
Amenability of linear-activity automaton
groups G. Amir, O. Angel and B. Virag (To appear in the Journal of the
European Mathematical Society ) [Pdf]
[Arxiv]
Positive speed for high-degree automaton groups
G. Amir and B. Virag [Pdf] [Arxiv]
A special set of exceptional times for
dynamical random walk on
Z2 G. Amir and C. Hoffmann Electronic Journal of Probability; Vol.
13 (2008)
paper 63, pages 1927-1951. [Pdf] [Arxiv]
Excited random walk against a wall G. Amir, I. Benjamini and G. Kozma Probability Theory and Related Fields,
Volume 140 1-2, January 2008, p83-102 [Pdf]
[Arxiv]
Giant components in biased graph
processes G. Amir, O. Gurel-Gurevich, E. Lubetzky
and A. Singer To appear in the Indiana Journal of
Math [Pdf] [Arxiv]
The diameter of random cayley graphs on Zq G. Amir and O. Gurel-Gurevich
Groups – Complexity – Cryptology - 2(2010, vol 1)
Pages 59–65; [Pdf] [Arxiv]
On Fixation of Activated Random Walks G. Amir and O. Gurel-Gurevich
Electronic communications in probability, Vol 15 (2010) pages:
119-123, [Pdf] [Arxiv]
One-dimensional long-range diffusion-limited aggregation G. Amir, O. Angel, I. Benjamini and G.
Kozma
Accepted under revision to Communications in Mathematical
Physics, [Pdf] [Arxiv]
Teaching - 2011-2012 (Current)
Fall 2011 : Introduction to Probability and Statistics.