PROBABILITY

Besides being a basic area of Mathematics and providing the theoretical foundation for Statistics, Probability is also used in a rapidly growing number of applications in the physical, biological, social and engineering sciences. Such applications often require the development of new theory and need scientists and engineers trained in the fundamental techniques of probability.

The probabilists in the Mathematics Department at UCSD pursue research in a variety of topics concerned with developing the theory of probability and stochastic processes and related applications. The theory has connections to other areas of Mathematics such as Analysis and Geometry, and applications arise in applied areas such as Physics, Genetics, Finance, Neuroscience and Communication Theory.

PROBABILISTS IN MATHEMATICS AT UCSD
  • Patrick J. Fitzsimmons, Professor (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve)
  • Ronald K. Getoor, Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., U. of Michigan), email: rgetoor@math.ucsd.edu
  • Jason Schweinsberg, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., UC Berkeley).
  • Michael J. Sharpe, Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Yale)
  • Ruth J. Williams, Professor (Ph.D., Stanford)
    OTHERS IN MATHEMATICS IN RELATED AREAS
    Geometry and Probability:
  • Bruce K. Driver, Professor (Ph.D., Cornell).
    Statistics:
  • Ian Abramson, Professor (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley), email: iabramso@math.ucsd.edu
  • Ery Arias-Castro, Assistant Professor, (Ph.D., Stanford), email: eariasca@math.ucsd.edu
  • Leonard R. Haff, Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Oregon St. Univ.), email: haff@math.ucsd.edu
  • Dimitris Politis, Professor (Ph.D., Stanford)
  • Murray Rosenblatt, Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., Cornell)
  • Ronghui Xu, Associate Professor of Biostatistics (Ph.D., UCSD)
    Combinatorics:
  • Fan Chung Graham, Professor (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)
  • Jacques Verstraete, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Cambridge University)
    Systems and Control:
  • William Helton, Professor, (Ph.D., Stanford University)
    PROBABILITY GRADUATE COURSES IN MATHEMATICS
    For information on graduate courses in Probability offered by the Mathematics Department at UCSD, click here.
    CENTERS OR PROGRAMS AT UCSD RELATED TO PROBABILITY
  • Advanced Network Sciences Group.
  • Center for Control Systems and Dynamics (CCSD).
  • Information Theory and Applications Center.