Harry Kesten

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Web Site N/A Contact Information Office:  410 Malott Hall Phone:  (607) 255-4130 Fax:  (607) 255-7149 Email:  kesten@math.cornell.edu

Education

Ph.D. (1958) Cornell University

Research Area: Probability theory, limit theorems, percolation theory

I am a probabilist. My main research interests are percolation theory and random walks, and in general I like to dabble in models inspired by statistical mechanics.

Selected Publications

Products of random matrices (with H. Furstenberg), Ann. Math. Statist. 31 (1960), 457–469.

Hitting Probabilities of Single Points for Processes with Stationary Independent Increments, Memoir no. 93, Amer. Math. Soc. (1969).

Percolation Theory for Mathematicians, Birkhäuser, Boston, 1982.

Aspects of first-passage percolation; in Ecole d'été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XIV, (P. L. Hennequin, ed.), Lecture Notes in Math 1180, Springer-Verlag, 1986, pp. 125–264.

On the speed of convergence in first-passage percolation, Ann. Appl. Probab. 3 (1993), 296–338.

Last modified: October 31, 2006