Assistant Professor UFPE - Federal University of Pernambuco
Council Member SBMAC - Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Pablo M. Rodriguez
About me
I am an Assistant Professor (Professor Adjunto) in the Department of Statistics at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. I am also a researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Modelagem Estocástica e Complexidade (INCT-NUMEC), based at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo (IME-USP), within the NUMEC Laboratory (Núcleo de Modelagem Estocástica e Complexidade). Additionally, I serve on the council of the Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics (SBMAC) and previously served as its President.
My research lies in probability theory and its applications, with a focus on interacting particle systems, percolation models, and stochastic processes on graphs, particularly for studying the spread of information and other dynamic phenomena in populations. I am also interested in the asymptotic properties of random structures motivated by biological questions, including percolation and random graph models, as well as branching processes with selection. More recently, I have begun exploring evolution algebras, motivated by their strong connections to discrete-time Markov chains and the research questions that arise from these connections.
... and some curiosities!
Thanks to the Mathematics Genealogy Project, a service of the NDSU Department of Mathematics, in association with the American Mathematical Society, I known that part of my Mathematics Genealogy is formed by Fabio Machado (and Elcio Lebensztayn), Pablo Ferrari, Enrique Andjel, Thomas Liggett, Samuel Karlin, Salomon Bochner, Erhard Schmidt, David Hilbert, Lindemann, Felix Klein, Julius Plücker, Christian Ludwig Gerling, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Christian August Hausen, Johann Christoph Witchmannshausen, Otto Mencke, Jakob Thomasius, and Friedrich Leibniz (1622)!
The Erdős number describes the "collaborative distance" between mathematician Paul Erdős and another person, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers. Erdős wrote around 1,500 mathematical articles in his lifetime, mostly co-written. He had 509 direct collaborators; these are the people with Erdős number 1. The people who have collaborated with them (but not with Erdős himself) have an Erdős number of 2 (12,600 people as of 7 August 2020), and so on. My Erdös number is 3 because I have collaborated with Kang who collaborated with Loebl who collaborated with Erdös!
Address
Departamento de Estatística
Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza (CCEN)
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)
Av. Jornalista Aníbal Fernandes, 497-629
Cidade Universitária, 50740-540
Recife, PE, Brazil