David Aldous

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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 was in 1977 when David Garling PhD ( Two topics in probability theory , through Exchange Ability theorems for partial sequences of random variables and the theory of weak convergence of Patrick Billingsley ). He has been at the University of California, Berkeley since 1979 , initially as Assistant Professor, since 1982 as Associate Professor and since 1986 as Professor. In 2004 he was White Professor-at-large at Columbia University .

Among other things, he dealt with large finite stochastic structures (such as random trees) and asymptotic laws for them (for example in his model of the continuum random tree (CRT), he investigated, among other things, their fractal structure), stochastic theories of clumping ( stochastic coalescence ) , Mixing times for Markov chains . At the moment (2008) he is working, among other things, with flows through random networks.

In 1980 he received the Rollo Davidson Prize. In 1993 he received the Loève Prize . He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 1994, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2004, and the National Academy of Sciences since 2010 . In 1998 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Berlin ( Stochastic coalescence ) and in 2010 gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Hyderabad (India) ( Exchangeability and continuum limits of discrete random structures ). In 2000 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago . For 2020 Aldous was awarded the Brouwer Medal .

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