David Aldous
David John Aldous FRS is an American mathematician known for his research on probability theory and its applications. In particular, his research studies 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. He is currently an affiliate professor at the University of Washington and lives near Seattle.
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. From 2004 to 2010, Aldous was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998 in Berlin and a plenary speaker at the ICM in 2010 in Hyderabad. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He discovered an algorithm for generating a uniform spanning tree of a given graph.
Selected publications
Books
As editor
Papers
- Aldous, David, "Deterministic and stochastic models for coalescence : a review of the mean-field theory for probabilists". Bernoulli 5 pp. 3-48.
- Aldous, David, "Exchangeability and related topics". Lecture Notes in Math., 1117 pp 1-198. Springer, Berlin.