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Dr. David John Aldous
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Mathematics

Home Page: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7793-2357

Biography
David Aldous is Professor Emeritus in the Statistics Dept at U.C. Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1977. He is the author of "Probability Approximations via the Poisson Clumping Heuristic" and (with Jim Fill) of a notorious unfinished online work "Reversible Markov Chains and Random Walks on Graphs". His research in mathematical probability has covered weak convergence, exchangeability, Markov chain mixing times, continuum random trees, stochastic coalescence and spatial random networks. A central theme has been the study of large finite random structures, obtaining asymptotic behavior as the size tends to infinity via consideration of some suitable infinite random structure. He has recently become interested in articulating critically what mathematical probability says about the real world. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Past Committee Membership
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Scientific Advisory Committee Apr 01, 2006 Jun 30, 2010