Probability

Probability at UW-Madison

Tenured and tenure-track faculty

David Anderson (Duke, 2005) applied probability, numerical methods, mathematical biology.

Hanbaek Lyu (Ohio State, 2018) discrete probability, dynamical systems, networks, optimization, machine learning

Sebastien Roch (UC Berkeley, 2007) applied discrete probability, mathematical and computational biology, networks.

Timo Seppäläinen (Minnesota, 1991) motion in a random medium, random growth models, interacting particle systems, large deviation theory.

Tatyana Shcherbyna (Kharkiv, 2012) mathematical physics, random matrices

Hao Shen (Princeton, 2013) stochastic partial differential equations, mathematical physics, integrable probability

Benedek Valko (Budapest, 2004) interacting particle systems, random matrices.

Emeriti

David Griffeath (Cornell, 1976)

Jim Kuelbs (Minnesota, 1965)

Tom Kurtz (Stanford, 1967)

Peter Ney (Columbia, 1961)

Postdocs

David Clancy (UWashington, 2022)

Yuchen Liao (Michigan, 2021)

Hong Chang Ji (KAIST, 2021)

Graduate students

Max Bacharach

Yu Sun

Shuqi Bi

William Powell

Yuchen Li

Danny Duan

Yahui Qu

Sam McKeawn

Jiahong Yuan

Probability Seminar

Thursdays at 2:30pm, VV901

General email list

Email list for lunch/dinner with a speaker

Graduate student reading seminar

Email list

You can also sign up by sending an email to XYZ+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu where XYZ is the name of the google group (see the link above).

Tuesdays, 2:30pm, 901 Van Vleck

Graduate Courses in Probability

2024 Fall

Math/Stat 733 Theory of Probability I

Math 735 Stochastic Analysis

2025 Spring

Math/Stat 734 Theory of Probability II

Math 833 Topics in Probability