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  Yilin Wang (ETH Zurich)

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​Here you can find the latest slides and videos of a selection of my talks.

  • Epstein's trunction and holography of Loewner energy and Schwarzian action
    Complex faces, Nick Makarov's 70th birthday conference, Venice, Italy, 04.2025
    [slides]

  • Brownian loop measure on Riemann surfaces, length spectra, and determinants of Laplacians
    Northeast Probability seminar, Columbia university, NYC 11.2024
    [slides]
    ​
  • Jordan curves with the geodesic property 
    Classical Function Theory in Modern Mathematics, ICMS, Edinburgh, 07.2024
    [video]

  • Introduction and recent developments on the Loewner energy for Jordan curves
    ECM, Seville, Spain 07.2024
    [slides]
    ​
  • Shear coordinates of Weil-Petersson circle homeomorphisms
    CIRM, Marseille, France 12.2023
    [video] [slides]

  • Quasiconformal deformation of the Loewner driving function and first variation of the Loewner energy
    Analysis and Geometry of Random Spaces, Jeju Island, Korea​​ 06.2023
    [slides]

  • Holography of the Loewner energy
    Probability seminar, Institut for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA, 04. 2023
    [video]

  • The Loewner energy at the interface of Random Conformal geometry and Teichmuller theory.
    Lecture series at IHES, 12. 2022
    [video playlist]

  • Interplay between Dirichlet and Loewner energies: cutting-welding operations and foliations by Weil-Petersson quasicircles (Joint talk with Fredrik Viklund)
    One World Probability seminar, 02.2021
    [my slides of part II]  [video]​​

  • Large deviations of multichordal SLE0+, real rational functions, and zeta-regularized determinants of Laplacians 
     
    Quasiworld Workshop 07.2020  
    [slides]  

  •  The duality between Loewner energies and foliations by Weil-Petersson quasicircles
    SCGP, Stony Brook 03.2020  [video]

  • Loewner energy via renormalization of Brownian loop measure
    MIT 11.2018  [slides]

Upcoming events


  • January 22, 2026 Colloquium, University of Michigan, USA
  • January 26-30, 2026 New interactions between probability and geometry IPAM, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • February 1-5, 2026 Bourgain lecture, IAS, Princeton, NJ, USA
  • April 4 - 19, 2026 Random Geometry in Math and Physics SCGP, Stony Brook, NY, USA
  • April 27 - May 1, 2026 Simons Collaboration on Probabilistic Paths to Quantum Field Theory Annual Meeting, New York, USA
  • May 25-29, 2026 SASI conference, NYU Shanghai, China
  • June 1-19, 2026 Summer program on the interaction between probability and quantum field theory, Peking University, Beijing, China
  • June 29 - July 3, 2026 Random Geometry and Number Theory, Bernoulli Center, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • July 6-10, 2026 Random Explorations: From Random Walks to Random Geometry Greg Lawler's 70th Birthday conference, IMSI, Chicago, USA
  • August 31 – September 4, 2026 Geometric and Probabilistic Aspects in Quantum Field Theory, CIRM, Luminy, France.
  • September 7-8, 2026 Aarhus University
  • September 9-14, 2026 University of Helsinki
  • February 10 - May 21, 2027 Quantum Fields, Probability, and Geometry​ Institut Mittag-Leffler, Sweden
  • June 28–July 2, 2027 Renormalized volume, dynamics, and discrete groups—in honor of Martin Bridgeman's 60th birthday, CIRM, Marseille, France

Events co-organized

  • February 10 - May 21, 2027 Quantum Fields, Probability, and Geometry​ Institut Mittag-Leffler, Sweden
  • March 23 – May 1, 2026 Random Geometry in Math and Physics SCGP, Stony Brook, NY, USA
  • January 26-30, 2026 New interactions between probability and geometry IPAM, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • June 2-6, 2025 Curves, Trees, and Surfaces, Steffen Rohde's 60th birthday conference, Berlin, Germany
  • 2022 - 2025 Informal probability and analysis seminar, IHES
  • December 13-15, 2021 Quantization days 2.0
  • November 05-06, 2020 Quantization days (informal zoom lectures)
  • 2019-2022  Probability seminar at MIT

Past lecture series and mini-courses

  1. January 20-25, 2025 Lecture series in Strasbourg, France​
  2. January 11-17, 2025 Lecture series, Winter school, Nice, France
  3. September 30 - October 2, 2024 Lecture series International Max Planck Research School Combo workshop, MPI Leipzig, Germany
  4. May 6-8, 2024 Lecture series, University of Bonn & Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany
  5. ​December 26-28, 2023 Lecture series at Probability winter school, KIAS, Seoul, South Korea​
  6. June 10-June 14, 2023 Lecture series, Probability summer school, BICMR, Peking University, Beijing, China
  7. Nov. 30-Dec. 8, 2022 Lecture series, Cours de l'IHES, IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
  8. July 31-August 5, 2022 Lecture series Probability summer school, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
  9. September 3-16, 2021 Lecture series, Young mathematician Forum (lectures) AMSS Chinese Academy of Sciences
  10. August 16-19, 2021 Lecture series, Online Open Probability School Video and slides available.​
  11. July 19-30 2021 Lecture series, Summer Graduate school on Random conformal geometry (video available), MSRI, Berkeley, CA, USA
  12. October 2020 Lecture series, Random geometry and Statistical physics (video available)
  13. August 2020 Lecture series, Probability webinar, Tsinghua-Peking-Beijing Normal University, China
  14. January 2019 Mini-course, Analysis and Geometry of Random Shapes, IPAM, UCLA, USA
  15. October 2018 Mini-course, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Past Conference plenary talks

  1. August 4-8, 2025 Combinatorial and hyperbolic random planar geometry, CIRM, Marseille, France
  2. June 23 - 27, 2025 ​Low dimensional phenomena: geometry and dynamics conference, IHP, Paris, France
  3. June 16-18, 2025 Developments in the Mathematical Sciences Symposium​, MPI Leipzig, Germany
  4. May 26-27, 2025 Higher rank geometric structures, Higgs bundles and physics, IHP, Paris, France
  5. May 19 - 23, 2025 Conference "Random geometry and its connections to QFT" HIM, Probabilistic methods in quantum field theory, Bonn, Germany
  6. April 7-11, 2025 Complex Faces, in honor of Nikolai Makarov, Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli Venice, Italy
  7. January 28-29, 2025 Géométries aléatoires et applications, ​Collège de France, Paris, France ​
  8. January 5-10, 2025 Conference on Complex analysis, Shenzhen, China
  9. November 3-16, 2024 Random paths to QFT: new probabilistic approaches to field theory, SCGP, Stony-Brook, USA
  10. November 21-22, 2024 Northeast Probability Seminar, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
  11. September 25 - 27, 2024 Fractal Geometry and Stochastics 7 Chemnitz (Saxony), Germany
  12. September 3-6, 2024​ Path integrals and friends, Antti Kupiainen's 70th birthday conference, Helsinki, Finland
  13. August 19-20, 2024 Workshop on Convexity and 3d Geometry, Luxembourg
  14. July 17-19, 2024 Quantum Fields and Probability II, Institute Mittag-Leffler, Sweden​
  15. July 15-17, 2024 European Congress of Mathematics, Seville, Spain 
  16. July 5-6, 2024 International Congress of Mathematical Physics, Strasbourg, France
  17. July 1-5, 2024 Alex Eremenko's birthday conference, Edinburgh, UK​
  18. June 24-28, 2024 Summer school in Liverpool, UK
  19. May 13-17, 2024 Statistical Physics and Random Surfaces, Oberwolfach, Germany
  20. March 18-20, 2024 Surfaces, manifolds, and related topics, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  21. March 14-16, 2024 Seminar on Stochastic Processes, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
  22. February 11 - March 13 , 2024 (cancelled participation) Thematic Program on Randomness and Geometry, Fields Institute, Canada​
  23. January 4-5, 2024 Finnish Mathematical Days, Aalto University, Finland
  24. December 4-8, 2023 Conference on Renormalization in Dynamics, Geometry, and Number Theory, CIRM, Marseille, France
  25. October 2-6, 2023 Probability and Geometry in, on and of non-Euclidean spaces, CIRM, Marseille, France
  26. September 4-8, 2023 (remote participation) Stochastic Processes and Related Fields, RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan
  27. August 14-18, 2023 Quasiworld workshop (Mario Bonk's 60th birthday conference), University of Helsinki, Finland
  28. July 31- August 4, 2023 New trends of conformal theory from probability to gravity, OIST, Okinawa, Japan
  29. June 5-9, 2023 Analysis and Geometry of Random Spaces, Jeju Island, Korea​​
  30. June 1-2, 2023 Teichmüller spaces : from low dimension to infinite dimension, Montpellier, France
  31. Oct 30-Nov 5, 2022 Heat Kernels, Stochastic Processes and Functional Inequalities, MFOberwolfach, Germany
  32. September 18-25, 2022 Probability and conformal field theory, Agay les roches rouges, France
  33. August 8 - August 12, 2022 Quantum Fields and Probability, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Djursholm, Sweden
  34. June 28 - July 14, 2022 "Probability and Mathematical Physics" Satellite conference of the ICM 2022, Helsinki, Finland
  35. 04.2022 Workshop: The Analysis and Geometry of Random Spaces, MSRI
  36. 01.2022 Introductory Workshop: The Analysis and Geometry of Random Spaces, MSRI
  37. 12.2021 Probability in Statistical Physics, PIMS, Vancouver (online)
  38. 08.2020 Virtual Bozeman workshop (online)
  39. 07.2020 Quasiworld workshop, UCLA (online)
  40. ​03.2020 Analysis, Dynamics, Geometry and Probability: on the occasion of Chris Bishop’s 60th birthday, Simons center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, USA
  41. 08.2019 Modern Aspects of Complex Analysis and Its Applications, in honor of John Garnett's retirement and Don Marshall's 70th birthday. University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA
  42. 06.2019 Probability and quantum field theory: discrete models, CFT, SLE and constructive aspects, Porquerolles, France
  43. 02.2019 Chaos, Holography and Coadjoint Orbits, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  44. 09.2018 Analysis and Probability workshop attached to "CMI at 20" conference, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  45. 09.2018 5th SwissMAP General Meeting, Grindelwald, Switzerland
  46. 08.2018 Workshop on Probability and Analysis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  47. 07.2018 RGM follow up, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK​
  48. 06.2018 Random Conformal Geometry and Related Fields, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, South Korea
  49. 04.2018 Pathwise SLE Meeting, Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany
  50. 03.2017 Workshop on SLE, GFF and LQG, Columbia university, New York, NY, USA​
  51. 08.2016 Berlin-Oxford Young Researchers Meeting on Applied Stochastic Analysis, Weierstrass Institute, Berlin, Germany
  52. 06.2016 Recent developments in SLE, Mittag-Leffler Institute, Djursholm, Sweden
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Selected Seminar Talks

  1. January 15, 2026 Geometry and topology seminar, Jussieu, Paris
  2. October 20, 2025 Online Geometric and functional inequalities and applications
  3. August 30-September 4, 2025 Colloquium at NUS, Singapore
  4. May 5, 2025 Ergodic theory seminar, Institut de recherche mathématique  de Rennes, France
  5. April 11, 2025 Colloquia Patavina, Padova, Italy
  6. April 14 - 15, 2025 ​Analysis seminar, Bocconi university, Milan, Italy
  7. March 27, 2025 Geometry and topology seminar, Orsay
  8. March 20, 2025 Colloquium at YMSC (online), Beijing, China
  9. March 05, 2025 Online talk at Mathematics Colloquium, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran
  10. March 04, 2025 Colloquium at Université Paris Dauphine, France
  11. December 03, 2024 Probability seminar Cambridge, UK
  12. November 7, 2024 Colloquium, Stony-Brook, USA
  13. October 23, 2024 Stockholm Colloquium, Stockholm, Sweden
  14. August 29, 2024 Online seminar at Great Bay university, China ​
  15. June 17, 2024 Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Finance Seminar, Oxford University, UK
  16. April 23, 2024  Séminaire d’analyse et géométrie de l’IMJ-PRG, Paris, France
  17. April 19, 2024 Bristol Mathematical physics seminar (online), UK
  18. April 02, 2024  Le Séminaire d'analyse harmonique, Université Paris Saclay, Orsay, France
  19. January 02, 2024 Seminar talk at KIAS, Seoul, South Korea
  20. December 22, 2023 Colloquium Shanghai Jiaotong university, Shanghai, China
  21. December 11, 2023 Seminar of mathematical physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  22. November 30, 2023 Le Séminaire Virtuel Francophone Groupes et Géométrie, Institut Fourier, Grenoble, France
  23. September 25, 2023 Séminaires d'analyse, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
  24. May 4, 2023, China-France Mathematics Talents Class, online talk, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
  25. April 27, 2023, Séminaire de probabilité, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
  26. April 14, 2023, Probability seminar, IAS, Princeton, NJ, USA
  27. April 6, 2023, Mathematics Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
  28. April 4, 2023, Geometry and topology seminar, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
  29. March 31, 2023, Dynamics, Geometry and Moduli Spaces, an informal seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
  30. January 12, 2023, seminar at ISTA, Austria
  31. January 11, 2023, Vienna Probability seminar, Universitat Wien, Austria
  32. November 25, 2022 Séminaire des probabilités, l'Insititut Fourier, Grenoble, France
  33. November 24, 2022 Séminaire de théorie spectrale et géométrie, l'Insititut Fourier, Grenoble, France
  34. November 15, 2022 Seminaire de Probabilites, Sorbonne Université​, Paris
  35. November 7, 2022 Seminaire de Géométrie et groupes discrets, IHES
  36. October 12, 2022 "Flat seminar", Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France
  37. October 10, 2022 Teichmuller theory and related topics, Zoom seminar, China
  38. May 9, 2022 MATRIX seminar, MATRIX, Australia
  39. April 7, 2022 LA Probability Forum, Caltech, CA, USA
  40. March 10, 2022 Hausdorff center for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany
  41. February 26 - March 5, 2022 Colloquium, University of Chicago, IL
  42. February 23, 2022 Probability seminar, University of California, Berkeley, CA
  43. January 31, 2022 Analysis and PDE seminar, University of California, Berkeley
  44. Jan 19, 2022 Colloquium, Yale University
  45. October 12, 2021 Colloquium, University of Michigan
  46. September 28, 2021 CAvid complex analysis online seminar
  47. June 10, 2021. Wilhelm Killing Colloquium, University of Muenster, Germany
  48. March 16, 2021. Hyperbolic geometry seminar, Graduate center, CUNY
  49. February 25, 2021. One World Probability seminar, online.
  50. February 9, 2021. SAUCY seminar in stochastic analysis and related topics, online.
  51. January 7, 2021. Probability seminar, UC San Diego, online.
  52. Decembre 16, 2020. Wharton Statistics Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  53. December 8, 2020. Analysis and PDE seminar, UCLA, USA
  54. December 4, 2020. Probability seminar, University of Chicago​, USA
  55. November 25, 2020. Seminar at Shanghai center of mathematical sciences, China
  56. November 2, 2020. BiSTRO (Billiards and Surfaces à la Teichmüller and Riemann, Online)
  57. October 20, 2020. Guest lecture: Topics in Real Analysis: Weil-Petersson curves, traveling salesman theorems, and minimal surfaces, Stony-Brook, USA
  58. October 9, 2020. Young Mathematician Lecture Series, National University of Singapore
  59. September 30, 2020. Analysis seminar, Michigan State University
  60. September 9, 2020. Utah-Arizona Stochastic seminar.
  61. 05.2020 Analysis seminar, online MIT, Cambridge MA, USA
  62. 01.2020 Séminaire d'analyse et géométrie, University of Pierre Marie Curie, France
  63. 11.2019 Rainwater Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  64. 09.2019 Informal Geometry and Dynamics seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
  65. 06.2019 Groupe de travail : Opérateur de Dirac, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
  66. 06.2019 Probability Seminar, University of Vienna, Austria
  67. 04.2019 Analysis and Probability seminar, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
  68. 03.2019 Mathematical Physics seminar, University of Helsinki, Finland
  69. 12.2018 Probability Seminar, Beijing University, Beijing, China
  70. 11.2018 Probability Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
  71. 11.2018 Probability Seminar, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
  72. 06.2018 Complex Analysis Seminar, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  73. 04.2018 Mathematical Physics Seminar, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
  74. 03.2018 Probability Seminar, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
  75. 04.2017 Graduate Seminar in Analysis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  76. 01.2017 Rainwater Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  77. 11.2016 Stochastic Analysis Seminars, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  78. 10.2016 Séminaire de Probabilités de Lyon, ENS, Lyon, France
  79. 06.2016 Probability Seminar, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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