Luiz Renato Gonçalves Fontes

Ph.D. New York University - 1992

Professor at the IME-USP


e-mail: lrenato at ime.usp.br


home page: http://www.ime.usp.br/~lrenato/


Research interests

Probability Theory, Stochastic Process, Interacting Particle Systems, Percolation, Statistical Mechanics, Disordered Media.

Selected publications

  • Fontes, L. R. G.; Mathieu, P. K-processes, scaling limit and aging for the trap model in the complete graph.
    • Annals of Probability, v. 36, p. 1322-1358, 2008.
  • Fontes, L. R. G.; Isopi, M.; Newman, C. M.; Ravishankar, K. The Brownian Web: Characterization and Convergence.
    • Annals of Probability, v. 32, n. 4, p. 2857-2883, 2004.
  • Fontes, L. R. G.; Isopi, M.; Newman, C. M. Random walks with strongly inhomogeneous rates and singular diffusions: convergence, localization and aging in one dimension.
    • Annals of Probability, v. 30, p. 579-604, 2002.
  • Fontes, L. R. G.; Schonmann, R.; Sidoravicius, V. Stretched exponential fixation in stochastic Ising models at zero temperature.
    • Communications in Mathematical Physics, v. 228, p. 495-518, 2002.
  • Ferrari, P. A.; Fontes, L. R. G. Shock fluctuations in the asymmetric simple exclusion process.
    • Probability Theory and Related Fields, v. 99, p. 305-319, 1994.