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

Erik Bates (Stanford, 2019)

David Keating (UC Berkeley, 2021)

David Clancy (UWashington, 2022)

Graduate students

Max Bacharach

Evan Sorensen

Yu Sun

Jiaming Xu

Shuqi Yu

Probability Seminar

Thursdays at 2:30pm, VV901

General email list

Email list for lunch/dinner with a speaker

Graduate student reading seminar

Email list

Tuesdays, 2:30pm, 901 Van Vleck

Graduate Courses in Probability

2022 Fall

Math/Stat 733 Theory of Probability I

Math/Stat 735 Stochastic Analysis

Math/ECE/Stat 888 Topics in Mathematical Data Science

Math 717 Stochastic Computational Methods

2023 Spring

Math/Stat 734 Theory of Probability II

Math 833 Topics in Probability: Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

Math/ECE/Stat 888 Topics in Mathematical Data Science