David Aldous

For other people named David Aldous, see David Aldous (disambiguation).

David Aldous
David Aldous in Berkeley
Born	13 July 1952 (1952-07-13) (age 59)
Nationality	English
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	David J. H. Garling
Doctoral students	Jose Palacios
Notable awards	Loève Prize (1993) Davidson Prize (1980)

David John Aldous, FRS (born 13 July 1952) is a mathematician known for his research on mathematical probability theory and its applications, in particular in topics such as exchangeability, weak convergence, Markov chain mixing times, the continuum random tree and stochastic coalescence. He entered St. John's College, Cambridge in 1970 and received his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1977 under advisor D.J.H. Garling.^[1] Since 1979 Aldous has been on the faculty at University of California, Berkeley.

He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1980, the Loève Prize in 1993, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994. In 2004, Aldous was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[2]

Selected publications

Books

• Aldous, David (1989). Probability approximations via the Poisson clumping heuristic. Applied Mathematical Sciences. 77. New York: Springer-Verlag. pp. xvi+269. ISBN 0-387-96899-7. MR969362. 

Papers

• Aldous, David, "Deterministic and stochastic models for coalescence (aggregation and coagulation): a review of the mean-field theory for probabilists". Bernoulli 5 (1999) pp. 3–48.
• Aldous, David, "Exchangeability and related topics". Lecture Notes in Math., 1117 (1985) pp 1–198. Springer, Berlin.

References

1. ^ David Aldous at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
2. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf. Retrieved 14 April 2011. 

External links

• Personal home page.
• David Aldous's results at the International Mathematical Olympiad

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Name	Aldous, David
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Date of birth	13 July 1952
Place of birth	Devon, England
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