David Aldous's Home Page

I am on leave, away from Berkeley, for the year July 2009 - June 2010, but may be contacted via my usual Berkeley email address.

Teaching

On leave 2009-2010. Here is a complete list of recent courses (only the most recent version of each course is listed).

Seminars

I coordinate the monthly Interdisciplinary Stochastic Processes Colloquium.

My Research Site

short cut to Papers and preprints

"Probability and the Real World" project

This is a long-term, and overly ambitious, project to articulate what mathematical probability says about the real world. Some self-contained existing pieces are

There is also a lot of material online associated with my junior/senior course From Undergraduate Probability Theory to the Real World . In particular there are some lecture write-ups.

The non-mathematical parts of the project are being developed as a web site, intended as a more idiosyncratic counterpart to two existing sites with somewhat related themes: Understanding Uncertainty and Chance News. The current "beta version" set of pages are sufficiently incomplete and fragmented that I don't want them quoted or linked to; but if you really want to enter the maze at your own risk, start with this cover page to the beta version.

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

(1/09) I have just stepped down as Editor of the open access survey journal Probability Surveys.
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