Miklos Z. Racz I am currently a Statistics PhD student at UC Berkeley, where I am advised by Elchanan Mossel. I am interested in mathematics and mathematical models explaining real-world phenomena, in particular probability theory and applied probability. I like to think about voting, networks, interacting particle systems, game theory, and mathematical biology. Previously, I received my diploma in mathematics 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. My CV (as of October 3, 2012). Email: racz at stat.berkeley.edu

Research

• Multidimensional sticky Brownian motions as limits of exclusion processes
  Miklós Z. Rácz, Mykhaylo Shkolnikov
  Submitted.
  [ arXiv ]
• A Smooth Transition from Powerlessness to Absolute Power
  Elchanan Mossel, Ariel Procaccia, Miklós Z. Rácz
  Submitted.
  [ arXiv ]
• A quantitative Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem without neutrality
  Elchanan Mossel, Miklós Z. Rácz
  Submitted; extended abstract appeared in STOC 2012.
  [ arXiv ] [ STOC version ] [ SIGEcom letter ]
• Modeling Flocks and Prices: Jumping Particles with an Attractive Interaction
  Márton Balázs, Miklós Z. Rácz, Bálint Tóth
  To appear in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré -- Probabilités et Statistiques (accepted: 2012).
  [ arXiv: expanded | shorter ]
• Analysis of unstable behavior in a mathematical model for erythropoiesis
  Susana Serna, Jasmine A. Nirody, Miklós Z. Rácz
  Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2013, 66(3):595--625.
  [ link ]

Teaching

• Spring 2013: Stat 155 (Game Theory)
  • Course webpage
  • Section information
• Summer 2011: Stat W21 (Introductory Statistics)

Misc

• A nice problem I like.
• Statistics Graduate Student Association wiki
• The Berkeley Math Circle is a great local program for students enthusiastic about math.
• Soccer Without Borders has a great mission. If you can, consider contributing.