Rick Durrett's Home Page

Rick's Ramblings

I am a Professor in the Mathematics Department at Cornell University. My favorite research topics are stochastic spatial models that arise from questions in ecology, and use of probability problems that arise from genetics.

Math 106 Course Page is on Blackboard
Math 275 Course Page

MCTP grant materials

Math in the TV show Numb3rs
Math Explorer's Club topics

Cornell Probability Summer Schools

1^st, July 10 -- 23, 2005
2^nd, June 26 - July 7, 2006
3^rd, June 18-29, 2007
4^th, June 23 - July 3, 2008

Workshop for Women in Probability, Oct. 5-7, 2008

Probability at Cornell.

Current Faculty
Recent Postdocs
Current and recent graduate students
We have two short conferences each year

Books

Elementary Probability for Applications old version * new version being written
Random Graph Dynamics (now published)
DNA Sequence Evolution (2nd Edition, to appear summer 2008)
Other books

Publications

Recent Publications
Genetics
Stochastic Spatial Models
Measure Valued Diffusions
All Publications (PDF)

Talks

Links

Grant Support. Most of this research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation.

Rick Durrett rtd1 (at) cornell.edu