Hugo Touchette

Professor of Applied Mathematics
Division of Applied Mathematics
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Stellenbosch University
South Africa
htouchette[at]sun.ac.za
htouchet[at]alum.mit.edu
ORCID profile
Supporter of the Leiden Manifesto on metric-based research evaluations and the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
Supporter of the Elsevier boycott and pretty soon Springer too. Publish in society journals
Interested in data science and machine learning? See my list of courses and resources

Research

Stochastic area with Johan du Buisson and Thamu Mnyulwa, published in PRE
Large deviations in linear diffusions with Johan du Buisson, published in PRE
Adaptive estimation of large deviations with Francesco Coghi. Featured as Editor's suggestion in PRE
Anomalous large deviations with Daniel Nickelsen, published in PRE
Machine learning estimation of large deviations with Jiawei Yan and Grant Rotskoff, published in PRE
Current fluctuations in nonreversible samplers with Francesco Coghi and Raphael Chetrite, published in PRE
Current large deviations in reflected diffusions with Emil Mallmin and Johan du Buisson, published in JPA
Large deviations of reflected diffusions with Johan du Buisson, published in PRE
Anomalous large deviations with Daniel Nickelsen, published in PRL
English translation of Harald Cramér's 1938 paper on large deviations

The machine learning contributions behind the 2024 Physics Nobel Prize
Summary | Talk | Talk | ICTS Newsletter
Member of the Editorial Board of J. Phys. A (from 2024)
Member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review E (from 2021)
Lecture notes on dynamical large deviations for the 2017 FPSP Summer School: arxiv | published version
Course on Large Deviations in Statistical Physics
Review on large deviation theory and statistical mechanics: arxiv:0804.0327 | published version
Lecture notes on large deviation theory: arxiv:1106.4146