Jad Hamdan

Jad Hamdan

hamdan[at]maths.ox.ac.uk

I'm a final-year PhD student of Jon Keating at Oxford. I'm broadly interested in random matrix theory, analytic number theory, Gaussian multiplicative chaos and their interactions.
I also help organise the Oxford Random Matrix Theory Seminar.

Research:
(Undergraduate work)

Collaborators: Louigi Addario-Berry, Louis-Pierre Arguin, Anna Brandenberger, Nicola Muca Çirone, Luc Devroye, Marcel Goh, Céline Kerriou, Jonah Saks, Cristopher Salvi.


Presentations:
  • The Riemann zeta function and logarithmically correlated fields, Probability Seminar, University of Warwick (10/2025)

  • The Riemann zeta function and logarithmically correlated fields, Informal Probability Seminar, Courant Institute (NYU) (09/2025)

  • The logarithm of the Riemann zeta function on short intervals is a branching random walk, Mathematical Physics Seminar, University of Bristol (02/2025)

  • The logarithm of the Riemann zeta function on short intervals is a branching random walk, Probability Seminar, University of Oxford (02/2025)

  • Genus expansion in non-linear random matrix theory, XX Brunel-Bielefeld Workshop on Random Matrix Theory and Applications, Brunel University London (poster) (12/2024)

  • Genus expansion in non-linear settings, Probability and Applications Seminar, Queen Mary University of London (12/2024)

  • Graph expansions of deep neural networks and their universal scaling limits, Recent developments beyond classical regimes in statistical learning, CIMI Toulouse (11/2024)

  • A fixed-point approach to non-commutative central limit theorems, Probabilistic Operator Algebras Seminar, UC Berkeley (online) (04/2024)