Formal name: Prof.dr. J. van den Berg
Function: Scientific Staff Member
Email: Rob.van.den.Berg@cwi.nl
Telephone: +31(0)20 592 4088
Room: M334
Research groups: Stochastics
Research
Van den Berg's research involves the rigorous mathematical treatment of random spatial processes.
Recent work by Van den Berg includes the extension of classical sharp-transition results in percolation to a large class of dependent models including the well-known two-dimensional contact process (versions of which serve as models of vegetation patterns).
Further, Van den Berg and his PhD student Kiss generalized a well-known result in first-passage percolation by Benjamini, Kalai and Schramm.
Van den Berg, in cooperation with other researchers, also obtained new results for mathematical models of forest-fires (and related processes which are believed to exhibit self-organized criticality), invasion percolation, frozen percolation and other growth models.
Moreover, new correlation-like inequalities of a combinatorial nature were obtained.
Career
| 2013 | Scientific staff member PNA2 - Probability and Stochastic Networks |
| 2013 - | Scientific staff member ST - Stochastics |
| 2003 - | Full professor VU University Amsterdam |
| 1990 - 1991 | Postdoctoral Fellowship Cornell University |
| 1988 - 2012 | Scientific staff member PNA2 - Probability and Stochastic Networks |
| 1986 - 1988 | System engineer Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems |
| 1985 - 1986 | Postdoc at IMA, University of Minnesota |
Selected Academic Activities
| 2012 - | Associate editor Journal: Annals of Probability |
| 2010 | Co-organizer Technische Universiteit Eindhoven - [TU/e] - ESF Conference |
Selected Publications
| J. van den Berg, Demeter Kiss. Sublinearity of the travel-time variance for dependent first passage percolation. Annals of Probability 40, 743–764, 2012. |
| J. van den Berg, B. de Lima, P. Nolin. A percolation process on the square lattice where large finite clusters are frozen. Random Structures and Algorithms, DOI: 10.1002/rsa.20375, 2011. |
| J. van den Berg. Sharpness of the percolation transition in the two-dimensional contact process. Annals of Applied Probability 21, 374–395, 2011. |
