Richard Arratia Explained

Richard Alejandro Arratia is a mathematician noted for his work in combinatorics and probability theory.

Contributions

Arratia developed the ideas of interlace polynomials with Béla Bollobás and Gregory Sorkin,^[1] found an equivalent formulation of the Stanley–Wilf conjecture as the convergence of a limit, and was the first to investigate the lengths of superpatterns of permutations.

He has also written highly cited papers on the Chen–Stein method on distances between probability distributions,^{[2] [3]} on random walks with exclusion,^[4] and on sequence alignment.^{[5] [6]}

He is a coauthor of the book Logarithmic Combinatorial Structures: A Probabilistic Approach.^{[7] [8] [9]}

Education and employment

Arratia earned his Ph.D. in 1979 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison under the supervision of David Griffeath. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Southern California.^[10]

Selected publications

Research papers

Books

External links

• Web site: Richard Arratia . Microsoft Academic Search.
• USC faculty page

Notes and References

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10. http://dornsife.usc.edu/mathematics/Faculty/ Faculty listing