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  • Probability models from physics (statistical mechanics)–percolation, Ising model, Potts model, first passage percolation, and other models on a lattice.\u00a0 Polymers, Gibbs distributions, interfaces.<\/li>\n
  • Subadditive Euclidean functionals on random point sets–minimal spanning trees, traveling salesman problem.<\/li>\n
  • empirical processses and probability in Banach spaces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    Education<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n
    1982<\/td>\nPh.D.<\/td>\nMIT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    1979<\/td>\nB.S.<\/td>\nUniv of Washington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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    Biographical<\/h5>\n
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    • Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, 1982-1983<\/li>\n
    • NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Department of Statistics, University of Washington, 1983-1986<\/li>\n
    • Assistant Professor of Mathematics, USC, 1986-1990<\/li>\n
    • Associate Professor of Mathematics, USC, 1990-1996<\/li>\n
    • Professor of Mathematics, USC, 1996-present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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