David Aldous

David John Aldous ( born July 13, 1952 in Exeter) is a British mathematician who deals with probability theory.

Aldous studied from 1973 at the University of Cambridge, was there from 1977 to 1979 Research Fellow at St John 's College, where he became in 1977 a doctorate at David Garling ( Two topics in probability theory, via Exchange Ability theorems for subsequences of random variables and the theory of weak convergence by Patrick Billingsley ). Since 1979 he has been at the University of California, Berkeley, first as Assistant Professor, since 1982 as an associate professor and since 1986 as a professor. In 2004, he was White Professor- at-large at Columbia University.

He worked among others with large finite stochastic structures (such as random trees ) and asymptotic laws for this (for example, in his model of continuum random tree (CRT), he examined inter alia, their fractal structure ), stochastic theories of the formation of lumps ( stochastic coalescence ), mixing times for Markov chains. Currently (2008) he deals with, among other things, with rivers running through random networks.

In 1980 he was awarded the Rollo Davidson prize. In 1993 he received the Loève Prize. Since 1994 he is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and since 2004 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1998 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) in Berlin ( Stochastic coalescence ) and held a plenary lecture at the ICM 2010 in Hyderabad ( India) ( Exchange Ability and continuum limits of discrete random structures). In 2000 he became an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago.

Writings

  • Probability Approximations via the Poisson Clumping Heuristic, Springer- Verlag, New, 1989, ISBN 0-387-96899-7
  • Aldous, Persi Diaconis: Longest Increasing subsequences - from Patience Sorting to Baik - Deift - Johansson theorem, Bulletin AMS, Bd.36, 1999, S.413
  • With Persi Diaconis: Shuffling cards and stopping times, American Mathematical Monthly, Bd.93, May 1986 S.333
  • Deterministic and stochastic models for coalescence ( aggregation and coagulation ): a review of the mean-field theory for probabilists, Bernoulli, Vol 5, 1999, p.3 - 48th
  • Exchange Ability and related topics, Lecture Notes in Math, Springer Verlag, Bd.1117, 1985, p.1 -198
  • Stochastic Coalescence, ICM Berlin 1998
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