Miklos Z. Racz

PhD student at the
Department of Statistics
UC Berkeley

Email: racz at stat.berkeley.edu

Basic Info

In general, I am interested in mathematics and mathematical models explaining real-world phenomena. In particular, I am interested in probability theory and related areas.

I received my diploma in mathematics in June 2010 from the Institute of Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, under the supervision of Márton Balázs and Bálint Tóth. In my thesis I studied a stochastic interacting particle system representing agents setting prices in a market, with the aim of describing the ensuing price inflation and fluctuation.

Since August 2010 I am a graduate student at UC Berkeley, where I am advised by Elchanan Mossel. Currently I am thinking about questions related to voting systems and social choice theory.

My CV (as of 27 November 2011).

Research

A Smooth Transition from Powerlessness to Absolute Power
Elchanan Mossel, Ariel Procaccia, Miklós Z. Rácz
ArXiv
A quantitative Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem without neutrality
Elchanan Mossel, Miklós Z. Rácz
Extended abstract to appear in STOC 2012. ArXiv
Modeling Flocks and Prices: Jumping Particles with an Attractive Interaction
Márton Balázs, Miklós Z. Rácz, Bálint Tóth
Submitted. ArXiv: [expanded | shorter]
Analysis of unstable behavior in a mathematical model for erythropoiesis
Susana Serna, Jasmine A. Nirody, Miklós Z. Rácz
To appear in Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2012+.

Misc

A nice problem I like.
more to come soon..