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Ursula Porod

PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Biography

Ursula Porod received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1993. She held postdoctoral positions at UC Berkeley and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. She taught at Johns Hopkins University and Goucher College before joining the Northwestern faculty in 2009.

Porod’s research is on random walks on compact Lie groups. She held a Fulbright Fellowship in 1985-1987 and a Miller Research Fellowship at UC Berkeley in 1994-1996. Porod is the recipient of a Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award in 2013.

Teaching Awards
  • WCAS Alumni Teaching Award 2013
  • ASG Faculty Honor Roll for 2013, 2016, 2022
Preprints
Selected Publications

  1. Ursula Porod and Steve Zelditch, "Semi-classical limit of random walks". Trans. AMS, 352 (2000), 5317-5355.

  2. Ursula Porod and Steve Zelditch, "Semi-classical limit of random walks II".   Asymptotic Analysis, 18 (1998), 215-261.

  3. Ursula Porod, "The cut-off phenomenon for random reflections". Annals of Probability, 24  No.1 (1996), 74-96.

  4. Ursula Porod, "The cut-off phenomenon for random reflections II: complex and quaternionic cases". Probability Theory and Related Fields, 104 (1996), 181-209.

  5. Ursula Porod, "L2–lower bounds for a special class of random walks". Probability Theory and Related Fields, 101 (1995), 277-289.