I’m a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Delaware. My research is motivated by the frontiers of physics, life sciences, and engineering. I draw on a varied background and interdisciplinary collaborations to translate conceptual challenges in these areas into mathematical questions. In practice, I mostly work on probability theory and statistical mechanics.
Selected Papers
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Boltzmann-like occupation of nonequilibrium steady states on dense disordered networks Jacob Calvert Physical Review E, 2026 [paper] |
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A local–global principle for nonequilibrium steady states Jacob Calvert and Dana Randall Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 [paper] |
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Collapse and diffusion in harmonic activation and transport Jacob Calvert, Shirshendu Ganguly, and Alan Hammond Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, 2023 [paper] |
For a complete list, see Papers or my Google Scholar profile.
News & Upcoming
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| 11/2026 | My paper about nonequilibrium steady states on dense disordered networks was published in Physical Review E. |
| 10/2026 | I posted a new preprint that derives an analogue of the McLennan formula for equiaccessible steady states. |
| 10/2026 | I spoke about numerosity at the Conference on Complex Systems (CCS 2026) in Binghamton, NY. |
| 08/2026 | My paper with Frank den Hollander and Dana Randall on the principal eigenvectors of random Markov matrices was accepted to Electronic Communications in Probability. |
| 08/2026 | I joined the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Delaware as a tenure-track assistant professor. |
| 06/2026 | I posted a new preprint about extending the Boltzmann distribution to classes of nonequilibrium steady states. |
| 05/2026 | I gave a talk in LSE’s math seminar. |
| 04/2026 | I attended 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. |