Probability
Sheffield has a proud tradition of research and teaching in both probability and statistics,
dating back to the early 1950s under Geoffrey Jowett and Hilda Davies. In 1965 Professor
Joe Gani was appointed as the first professor and head of the new Department of Probability
and Statistics which separated from the Mathematics Departments. He established an MSc
course and PhD programme which have now developed into three MSc courses and a large
PhD group covering a wide range of areas including many joint projects with other university
departments. The research group in probability has 5 academic staff (including 2 professors),
and 3 postgraduate students. Together with statistics, the group has a seminar series with
external invited speakers, and regular informal research meetings, led by members of the
group.
Linked with the group is The Applied Probability Trust, which publishes two major international journals (Journal of Applied Probability and Advances in Applied Probability, both founded by Joe Gani) and which sponsors an annual lecture in Sheffield given by a leading international figure. This APT lecture takes place within the contact of a Sheffield Probability day.
Research in probability includes: branching processes; random walk; large deviations; fractals and random graphs; Levy processes; probability on groups; stochastic analysis; stochastic differential and partial differential equations and inference for stochastic processes.
Linked with the group is The Applied Probability Trust, which publishes two major international journals (Journal of Applied Probability and Advances in Applied Probability, both founded by Joe Gani) and which sponsors an annual lecture in Sheffield given by a leading international figure. This APT lecture takes place within the contact of a Sheffield Probability day.
Research in probability includes: branching processes; random walk; large deviations; fractals and random graphs; Levy processes; probability on groups; stochastic analysis; stochastic differential and partial differential equations and inference for stochastic processes.
Members
Academic staff | |||||
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Name | Office | Phone | VCard | ||
Prof David Applebaum | I11 | 23703 | D.Applebaum | vcard | Analytic probability; probability and stochastic processes on abstract structures; stochastic analysis |
Dr Nic Freeman | I20 | 23724 | N.P.Freeman | vcard | Probability, stochastic processes, random geometry, fractals, population genetics |
Dr Carina Geldhauser | G37 | 23554 | C.Geldhauser | vcard | stochastic PDEs, partial differential equations, interacting particle systems, mathematical models for material science |
Dr Jonathan Jordan | I9 | 23873 | Jonathan.Jordan | vcard | Probability theory, fractals and random graphs |
Teaching fellows | |||||
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Name | Office | Phone | VCard | ||
Dr Dimitrios Roxanas | H13 | 23876 | D.Roxanas | vcard | Analysis, Inverse Problems, Statistical Signal Estimation |
Retired staff | |||||
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Name | Office | Phone | VCard | ||
Prof John Biggins | J.Biggins | vcard | Applied probability |
Postgraduate students | |||||
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Name | Office | Phone | VCard | ||
Rosemary Shewell Brockway | RJShewellBrockway1 | vcard |
Applied Probability Trust | |||||
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Name | Office | Phone | VCard | ||
Dr Mark Yarrow | K27 | 23924 | Mark.Yarrow | vcard | Preferential attachment networks, random graphs, algebraic graph theory |
Past grants
Interacting Particle Systems and Stochastic PDEs | EPSRC |