Interacting Particle Systems at Saint-Flour

Rick Durrett received his Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford University in 1976. After nine years at UCLA, he came to Cornell University in 1985, where he is a professor of mathematics. He is the author of 8 books and more than 170 journal articles on a wide variety of topics, and he has supervised more than 40 Ph.D. students. He is a member of the National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Introduction aux processus de Markov à paramètre dans Z.- The stochastic evolution of infinite systems of interacting particles.- Topics in propagation of chaos.- Ten lectures on particle systems.