Dr Sunil Chhita

BIOGRAPHY

Sunil Chhita is an Associate Professor of Probability in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University. His research interests include probability theory and statistical mechanics, in particular the dimer model, the six vertex model, and alternating sign matrices. He has studied the rough-smooth transition, a transition between exponential and polynomial decay of correlations, which appears naturally in the two-periodic Aztec diamond. More recently, he has been studying the so-called liquid-gas transition which naturally appears for domino tilings of the two-periodic Aztec diamond.