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Teaching

Semester	Course number	Topic of course	Comments
Spring 2008	STAT 98/198	Blackjack and Poker	Student-taught course; I am only the sponsor.
Spring 2008	STAT C206B	Large Deviations and Stochastic Spatial Optimization	Graduate topics course in mathematical probability
Fall 2008	STAT 157	From Undergraduate Probability Theory to the Real World	Junior-senior seminar course, requiring student initiative!
Fall 2008	STAT 204	Probability for Applications	Graduate level, non measure-theory, second course in probability

Previous courses

Seminars

I coordinate the monthly Interdisciplinary Stochastic Processes Colloquium.
In Spring 2008 I am co-organizing the regular Wednesday Probability Seminar

My Research Site

Resources in non-technical probability

These are associated with my course From Undergraduate Probability Theory to the Real World .

Books

Probability Approximations via the Poisson Clumping Heuristic	Springer, 1989
Reversible Markov Chains and Random Walks on Graphs (with Jim Fill)	Draft chapters

Professional Activities

I am Editor of a newly-launched open access survey journal Probability Surveys. Click the link to get information on submitting and to view the current volume. This is part of Jim Pitman's initiative for The Mathematics Survey.
Associate Editor, Electronic J. Probability and Random Structures and Algorithms and American Mathematical Monthly.
Chair of committee that awards the biennial Loeve Prize in mathematical probability.
I serve on the MSRI Scientific Advisory Committee.
Fellow of the Royal Society

Personal stuff

1976 Cambridge photo	1995 official photo	2005 unofficial photo
Academic vita	Mathematical humor (original!)	2004 unofficial photo
The nine best science fiction novels you've never heard of	2007 unofficial photo

Contact information

Postal Address: Statistics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3860
Telephone: 510-642-3295
Fax: 510-642-7892
E-mail address: aldous_AT_stat.berkeley.edu