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.

Emeriti

David Griffeath (Cornell, 1976)

Jim Kuelbs (Minnesota, 1965)

Tom Kurtz (Stanford, 1967)

Peter Ney (Columbia, 1961)

Graduate students

Elnur Emrah

Chris Janjigian

Dae Han Kang

Christian Noack

Yu Sun, ysun@math.wisc.edu

Jason Wang

Beth Skubak Wolf

Yun Zhai

Probability Seminar

Thursdays at 2:25pm, VV901

Graduate Courses in Probability

2014 Fall

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

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

2014 Spring

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

Math/Stat 833 Topics in Probability Spring 2014: Continuous Time Markov Processes

Graduate student reading seminar

Tuesdays, 2:25pm