David J. Aldous
- Born: 13 July 1952
(Exeter, U.K.)
- Education:
- B.A. (Mathematics) 1973, Cambridge University
- Ph. D. (Mathematics) 1977, Cambridge University.
- Employment:
- St. John's College, Cambridge.
Research Fellow 1977-1979.
- Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley.
- Assistant Professor 1979-1982
- Associate Professor 1982-1986
- Professor 1986 - 2018.
- Professor Emeritus 2018 - present
- Chair 1997 - 1999.
- (Microsoft Research, 2009-2010).
- Awards, etc:
- Rollo Davidson Prize 1980
- I.M.S. (= Institute of Mathematical Statistics) Fellow 1985
- Loeve Prize in Probability 1993
- Fellow of the Royal Society 1994
- Sc. D. (Honorary), University of Chicago, 2000
- Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004
- A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University, 2004 -- 2010.
- National Academy of Sciences (foreign associate), 2010.
- Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Universite de Provence, 2011.
- A.M.S. (= American Mathematical Society) Fellow, 2012.
- Brouwer Medal, 2020.
- Research supported by N.S.F., 1979 - 2018.
- Invited talks:
- Invited Speaker, Ecole d'Ete St Flour 1983
- Special Invited Speaker, Conference on Stochastic Processes, 1979, 1988.
- I.M.S. Special Invited Lecturer 1982, 1988
- I.M.S. Wald Lecturer 1993.
- Invited speaker I.C.M. Berlin 1998.
- Mordell Lecturer, University of Cambridge, 2001
- Kolmogorov Lecturer, 6th Bernoulli Society Congress, 2004
- Plenary speaker, I.C.M. Hyderabad, 2010.
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Pao-Lu Hsu Distinguished Lecture, Tsinghua, 2015
- Professional service:
- I.M.S. Council 1987-1989
- N.S.F. Review Panel in Probability (3 years)
- MSRI Scientific Advisory Committee 2006 - 2010
- PIMS Scientific Review Panel 2014 - 2018
- Bernoulli Society Council, 2021 - present.
- Associate Editor:
Annals of Probability 1982-1987, 1994 - 2000;
Annals of Applied Probability 1989-1996;
J. Math. Analysis 1986-1991;
J. Theoretical Probability 1988 - 1995;
Electronic J. Probability 1995-2011,
Random Structures and Algorithms 2001 - 2012,
American Math. Monthly 2007 -- present;
Annales Henri Lebesgue
2017 - present.
- Editor:
Probability Surveys 2004 - 2008.
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Participant in a NASEM workshop
Anticipating Rare Events of Major Significance (2022)
and reviewer of a NASEM consensus study
Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism> (2023).