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. | Univ 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