About

My name is Trung Vu. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University where my mentors are Professor Nicolai Reshetikhin and Professor Hao Wu. I obtained my Ph.D. from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2025 under Professor Philippe Di Francesco and Professor Rinat Kedem supervision.

Research

I am interested in statistical mechanics and its interaction with other areas such as algebraic combinatorics, probability, discrete complex analysis, and representation theory. Specifically, I like to think about statistical mechanics models such as vertex models, dimer models and Ising models. Currently, I am studying the T-systems, the Q-systems, domino tiling of graphs arising from the discrete stepped initial data surface of these systems, limit shapes, embedding and the artic curve phenomena.

Publications

• Arctic curves of T-system with slanted initial data
  (joint with Philippe Di Francesco)
  Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 57 335201, 2024 [journal] [arXiv]
  
• Matrix Square Roots of Polynomials
  (joint with Kosmas Diveris)
  Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, 2019,[journal]