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.

NEW: 3/09 Not written by me, but anyway the most useful 4 pages you will ever read about "uncertainty".
1/09 Eighteen months late but maybe worth the wait: my review of The Black Swan.
11/08 Alumni newsletter article: What I Read Last Summer: markets, black swans and the next big thing in probability.
4/08 Talk on The top ten things that math probability says about the real world.

Teaching

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

Semester Course number Topic of course Comments

Fall 2004 STAT 20 Introduction to Statistics and Probability Lower-division introductory course

Fall 2003 STAT 24 Probability in Science, Sports and Life Freshman seminar

Spring 2009 STAT 98/198 Blackjack and Poker Student-taught course; I am only the sponsor.

Fall 2007 STAT 134 Concepts of Probability upper division post-calculus introduction to the mathematics of 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

Fall 2004 STAT 205A Probability Theory First year graduate core course: measure-theoretic probability (first part).

Spring 2009 STAT 205B Probability Theory First year graduate core course: measure-theoretic probability (second part).

Spring 2008 STAT C206B Large Deviations and Stochastic Spatial Optimization Graduate topics course in mathematical probability

Spring 2004 STAT 206 Reversible Markov Chains and Random Walks on Graphs Graduate topics course

Spring 2007 STAT 260 Random Graphs and Complex Networks. Graduate topics course

Fall 2001 STAT 260 Probabilistic Aspects of Combinatorial Optimization and Disordered Systems Graduate topics course

Semester	Course number	Topic of course	Comments
Fall 2004	STAT 20	Introduction to Statistics and Probability	Lower-division introductory course
Fall 2003	STAT 24	Probability in Science, Sports and Life	Freshman seminar
Spring 2009	STAT 98/198	Blackjack and Poker	Student-taught course; I am only the sponsor.
Fall 2007	STAT 134	Concepts of Probability	upper division post-calculus introduction to the mathematics of 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
Fall 2004	STAT 205A	Probability Theory	First year graduate core course: measure-theoretic probability (first part).
Spring 2009	STAT 205B	Probability Theory	First year graduate core course: measure-theoretic probability (second part).
Spring 2008	STAT C206B	Large Deviations and Stochastic Spatial Optimization	Graduate topics course in mathematical probability
Spring 2004	STAT 206	Reversible Markov Chains and Random Walks on Graphs	Graduate topics course
Spring 2007	STAT 260	Random Graphs and Complex Networks.	Graduate topics course
Fall 2001	STAT 260	Probabilistic Aspects of Combinatorial Optimization and Disordered Systems	Graduate topics course

Seminars

I coordinate the monthly Interdisciplinary Stochastic Processes Colloquium.

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

(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