Probability

Probability at UW-Madison

Tenured and tenure-track faculty

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

Sebastien Roch (UC Berkeley, 2007) applied probability, mathematical biology, theoretical computer science.

Timo Seppäläinen (Minnesota, 1991) interacting particle systems, random walks in random environments, large deviation theory.

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

Philip Matchett Wood (Rutgers, 2009) combinatorics, random matrices

Jun Yin (Princeton, 2008) random matrices

Postdoctoral fellows

Gregory Shinault (UC Davis, 2012) interacting particle systems, random growth models.

[Wai-Tong (Louis) Fan] (University of Washington-Seattle, 2014) interacting particle systems, complex adaptive systems arising in natural sciences.

Emeriti

David Griffeath (Cornell, 1976)

Jim Kuelbs (Minnesota, 1965)

Tom Kurtz (Stanford, 1967)

Peter Ney (Columbia, 1961)

Josh Chover (Univ. of Michigan, 1952)

Graduate students

Elnur Emrah

Chris Janjigian

Dae Han Kang

Christian Noack

Yu Sun, ysun@math.wisc.edu

Jason Wang

Yun Zhai

In gun Kim

Hao kai Xi

Fan yang

Probability Seminar

Thursdays at 2:25pm, VV901

Graduate student reading seminar

Tuesdays, 2:25pm

Graduate Courses in Probability

2015 Spring

Math/Stat 734 Theory of Probability II (formerly 832)

Math/Stat 833 Topics in Probability Spring 2014: Random Matrices

2014 Fall

Math/Stat 733 Theory of Probability I (formerly 831)

Math/Stat 735 Stochastic Analysis

Math/Stat 833 Topics in Probability: Essentials of Modern Discrete Probability