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August 2018 A Conversation with Jim Pitman
David Aldous
Statist. Sci. 33(3): 458-467 (August 2018). DOI: 10.1214/18-STS656

Abstract

Jim Pitman was born in June 1949, received a Ph.D. in 1974 from the University of Sheffield with advisor Terry Speed, and since 1979 has been in the U.C. Berkeley Statistics department. He is known for research on many topics within probability, in particular for a long-running collaboration with Marc Yor on distributional properties of Brownian motion, and for his influential lecture notes Combinatorial Stochastic Processes. The following conversation took place at his home in December 2017 and February 2018.

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David Aldous. "A Conversation with Jim Pitman." Statist. Sci. 33 (3) 458 - 467, August 2018. https://doi.org/10.1214/18-STS656

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Published: August 2018
First available in Project Euclid: 13 August 2018

zbMATH: 06991130
MathSciNet: MR3843386
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/18-STS656

Keywords: Brownian motion , combinatorial stochastic processes , Markov chain , Mathematical probability

Rights: Copyright © 2018 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Vol.33 • No. 3 • August 2018
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