Richard Timothy Durrett

Professor Richard T. Durrett is the James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University. Prior to his work at Duke, he worked at Cornell University and UCLA. Professor Durrett is interested in probability problems that arise from biology. He has worked on problems in population genetics, applied stochastic spatial models in ecology, and more recently has been modeling cancer. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and founder of the Cornell Probability Summer Schools. Some of his publications include, "Probability. Theory and Examples," "Probability models for DNA sequence evolution," and "Random Graph Dynamics."