Kenneth Alexander

Professor at Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California

Areas of Interest:

  • Probability models from physics (statistical mechanics)–percolation, Ising model, Potts model, first passage percolation, and other models on a lattice.  Polymers, Gibbs distributions, interfaces.
  • Subadditive Euclidean functionals on random point sets–minimal spanning trees, traveling salesman problem.
  • empirical processses and probability in Banach spaces

Education

1982 Ph.D. MIT

1979 B.S. University of Washington

Biographical

  • Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 1982-1983
  • NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Department of Statistics, University of Washington, 1983-1986
  • Assistant Professor of Mathematics, USC, 1986-1990
  • Associate Professor of Mathematics, USC, 1990-1996
  • Professor of Mathematics, USC, 1996-present

Curriculum Vitae