About me.
I am currently a postdoc at the University of Vienna, in the group of Nathanaël Berestycki. Since January 2024, I am the PI of the FWF-ESPRIT grant on "Emergent branching structures in random geometry". My research involves branching structures and their interplay with statistical mechanics, random planar maps, random permutations, SLE and Liouville quantum gravity.
Before this, I did my PhD in Paris at LPSM (Sorbonne Université) under the supervision of Élie Aïdékon. The manuscript of the thesis, entitled "Multitype growth-fragmentation processes and planar excursions", can be found here.
My pronouns are he/him.
Publications and preprints.
- Multitype self-similar growth-fragmentation processes, W. Da Silva, J.C. Pardo, ALEA (2024).
- The scaling limit of the volume of loop-O(n) quadrangulations, E. Aïdékon, W. Da Silva, X. Hu (2024).
- Power-law bounds for increasing subsequences in Brownian separable permutons and homogeneous sets in Brownian cographons, J. Borga, W. Da Silva, E. Gwynne, Advances in Mathematics (2024).
- Spatial growth-fragmentations and excursions from hyperplanes, W. Da Silva, J.C. Pardo (2023).
- Self-similar signed growth-fragmentations, W. Da Silva, Electronic Journal of Probability (2023).
- Growth-fragmentation process embedded in a planar Brownian excursion, E. Aïdékon, W. Da Silva, Probability Theory and Related Fields (2022).
Lecture notes.
- Introduction to random planar geometry, VSM minicourse (2024).