I’m a mathematician and data scientist. I’m interested in the relationship between the behavior of individuals the collectives they comprise. Basic scientific questions concern the forward direction, such as “How do the properties of tissues emerge from those of cells?” Grand challenges of engineering concern the reverse, like “How should I design an individual robot so that the swarm has desirable collective behavior?” These questions lead to a rich interplay of statistical, computational, and physical elements, which makes them difficult and rewarding.
Selected Papers
| Paper | |
|---|---|
| Correlation thresholds in the steady states of particle systems and spin glasses Jacob Calvert and Dana Randall Physical Review E, 2025 [pdf] |
| A local–global principle for nonequilibrium steady states Jacob Calvert and Dana Randall Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 [pdf] |
| Collapse and diffusion in harmonic activation and transport Jacob Calvert, Shirshendu Ganguly, and Alan Hammond Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, 2023 [pdf] |
For a complete list, see Papers or my Google Scholar profile.
News & Upcoming
| Date | Update |
|---|---|
| 05/2026 | I will give a talk in LSE’s math seminar. |
| 04/2026 | I will attend SFI’s meeting Complexity Futures: New Paradigms 2026 |
| 03/2026 | I gave a talk in the Bristol probability seminar. |
| 03/2026 | I gave a talk in the Oxford networks seminar. |
| 02/2026 | I accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Delaware! |
| 12/2025 | My paper with Dana Randall on a correlational threshold in the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model was published in Physical Review E. |
| 11/2025 | I am now a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at the London School of Economics. |
| 09/2025 | I attended the Postdocs in Complexity Global Conference during a two-week visit to SFI. |
| 08/2025 | I gave a talk in the stochastics seminar at Georgia Tech. |
| 06/2025 | Siobhan Roberts wrote an article about my work at SLMath with Frank den Hollander and Dana Randall. |
| 04/2025 | I started a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship at SFI. |
| 04/2025 | I gave a talk in the Stanford probability seminar. |
| 01/2025 | I started a Berlekamp Postdoctoral Fellowship at SLMath for the program on the Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures. |
| 11/2024 | I gave a seminar talk at SFI during a two-week visit. Thanks to James Holehouse for the invitation! |
| 10/2024 | My work with Dana Randall on a non-equilibrium analogue of the Boltzmann distribution was published in PNAS. See highlights by Georgia Tech and Phys.org. |