David Aldous Explained

David Aldous
Birth Date:13 July 1952
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:University of California, Berkeley
Alma Mater:University of Cambridge
Doctoral Advisor:David J. H. Garling
Awards:Loève Prize (1993)
Rollo Davidson Prize (1980)

David John Aldous FRS (born 13 July 1952) is a mathematician known for his research on 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 his advisor, D. J. H. Garling. Aldous was on the faculty at University of California, Berkeley from 1979 until his retirement in 2018.[1] [2]

He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1980, the Loève Prize in 1993,[3] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994.[4] In 2004, Aldous was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5] From 2004 to 2010, Aldous was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.[6] He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 1998 in Berlin[7] and a plenary speaker at the ICM in 2010 in Hyderabad.[8] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[9] He discovered (independently from Andrei Broder) an algorithm for generating a uniform spanning tree of a given graph.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Aldous Starts a New Chapter: Retirement . 14 February 2023 . 21 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230321015143/https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Misc/2018_retire_newsletter.pdf . live .
  2. Web site: David Aldous's Home Page . 14 February 2023 . 15 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230115201821/https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/ . live .
  3. Web site: The Loeve Prize. 10 January 2020. 9 August 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200809174330/https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Research/Loeve.html. live.
  4. Web site: David Aldous. Royal Society. 10 January 2020. 26 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200126105148/https://royalsociety.org/people/david-aldous-10978/. live.
  5. Web site: Members of the American Academy Listed by election year, 2000-2019. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 10 January 2020. 18 October 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191018184749/https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2019-10/electionIndex2000-2019.pdf. live.
  6. Web site: All Professors at Large 1965 to 2025. Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large. November 11, 2019. 15 June 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180615031244/http://adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu/all-professors-at-large-1965-to-june-30-20222/. live.
  7. Book: Aldous, David J.. Stochastic coalescence. Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. 1998. 205–211. https://www.elibm.org/ft/10011578000. 19 November 2023. 24 July 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200724011619/https://elibm.org/ft/10011578000. live.
  8. Book: Aldous, David J.. Exchangeability and continuum limits of discrete random structures. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 Hyderabad. I. 141–153. 2010. 9789814462938. https://books.google.com/books?id=Gj7ICgAAQBAJ&pg=PA141. 19 November 2023. 19 November 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231119114833/https://books.google.com/books?id=Gj7ICgAAQBAJ&pg=PA141#v=onepage&q&f=false. live.
  9. https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society

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