Saraí Hernández-Torres

I am a tenure-track researcher in the Instituto de Matemáticas at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. My hosts were Eviatar Procaccia and Ron Rosenthal. I obtained my Ph.D. with the probability group in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). I worked under the supervision of Omer Angel and Martin Barlow. Before that, I completed my M.Sc. in Mathematics at UBC and my B.Sc. in Mathematics at the Universidad de Guanajuato / CIMAT in Mexico. More details on my academic background and activities are available on my CV.

I am interested in discrete probability. I study stochastic models defined over combinatorial structures, such as random walks, random trees, and competitive growth processes. My work describes the large-scale behaviour of discrete random processes and their rigorous connections to continuous models through the scaling limit.

Recent and upcoming events

• November 4-8, 2024. EMALCA: Temas recientes en Teoría de las Probabilidades. La Habana, Cuba.
• November 16, 2024. Fiesta de las Ciencias y las Humanidades. Ciudad Universitaria, CDMX, Mexico.
• November 29 - December 2, 2024. Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting. Richmond, BC, Canada.
• January 13-17, 2025. The changing of times: a conference in honour of María Emilia Caballero. Merida, Mexico.
• January 23-24, 2025. Connections Workshop: Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures. SLMath, Berkeley, USA.
• February 25-27, 2025. Workshop on Probability and Machine Learning. CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico.

I'm one of the organizers for:

• Seminario de Probabilidad y Procesos Estocásticos.
    UNAM, Mexico. Together with Laura Eslava and Liliana Peralta.
• Red de Mujeres Latinoamericanas en Probabilidad y Estadística: Aleatorias y Normales.
    Together with Laura Eslava, Alejandra Fonseca-Morales and Lizbeth Peñaloza.
• Seminar: Random walks on Hecke algebras.
    Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM. Together with José Simental.
• Discrete Probability Session, 2024 CMS Winter Meeting.
    Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Richmond, Canada. Together with Gourab Ray.
• Workshop: Mixtures of probability and geometry.
    Casa Matemática Oaxaca (CMO). Together with Noé Bárcenas, Raquel Perales y Ron Rosenthal.

Research

Below there is a list of research papers, a list of talks with videos available online, and other writing.

Papers

Papers are listed in reverse chronological order by appearance on the arXiv. See also publication list on the arXiv.

• All
• Published/Accepted
• Preprints

Talks

Videos of recorded talks

• Talks in English
• En español
• Talks by co-authors

Other writing

• Thesis

Teaching

• Current
• Previous appointments

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