Rick Durrett, Professor and James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	105 Physics
Office Phone:	(919) 660-6970
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.math.duke.edu/~rtd

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• STA 790.02, SPECIAL TOPICS Synopsis

  SEE INSTRU, W 04:30 PM-07:00 PM

• STA 790.03, SPECIAL TOPICS Synopsis

  SEE INSTRU, Tu 04:40 PM-07:00 PM

Education:

PhD	Stanford University	1976
MS	Emory University	1973
BS	Emory University	1972

Specialties:

Probability

Research Interests:

Probability problems that arise from genetics and ecology, especially stochastic spatial models and cancer models. Random graphs and processes that take place on them.

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Junchi Li  
• Yuan Zhang  
• Masha Bessonov  

Postdocs Mentored

• David Herzog (2011-2014)  
• Andreas Aristotelous (2011-2013)  
• Marc Ryser (Jan 2012-June 2014)  
• David Sivakoff (2010-2012)  
• John Mayberry (2008 - 2010)  
• Soumik Pal (2006 - 2008)  
• Lea Popovic (2005 - 2007)  
• Paul Jung (2003 - 2007)  
• Iljana Zahle (2002 - 2003)  
• Jason Schweinsberg (2001 - 2004)  
• Vlada Limic (2000 - 2003)  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. R. Durrett, J.P. Gleeson, A.L. Lloyd, P.J. Mucha, Feng Shi, D. Sivakoff, J.E.S. Socoloar, and C. Varghese, Graph fission in an evolving voter model, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, vol. 109 (2012), pp. 3682-3687
2. R. Durrett and D. Remenik, Evolution of dispersal distance, J. Mathematical Biology, vol. 39 (2011), pp. 2043-2078
3. Durrett, Rick and Mayberry, John, Traveling waves of selective sweeps, The Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 21 no. 2 (2011), pp. 699--744, ISSN 1050-5164 [MR2807971]
4. Chatterjee, Shirshendu and Durrett, Rick, Persistence of activity in threshold contact processes, an ``annealed approximation'' of random {B}oolean networks, Random Structures \& Algorithms, vol. 39 no. 2 (2009), pp. 228--246, ISSN 1042-9832 [MR2850270]
5. R. Durrett, J. Foo, K. Leder, J. Mayberry, and F. Michor, Intratumor heterogeneity in evolutionary models of tumor progression, Genetics, vol. 188 (2011), pp. 461-477
6. R. Durrett and Shirshendu Chatterjee, Persistence of activity in random Boolean networks, Random Structures and Algorithms, vol. 39 (2011), pp. 228-246
7. R. Durrett, Probability: Theory and Examples, 4th Edition (2010), Cambridge U Press
8. R. Durrett, Some features of the spread of epidemics and opinions on a random graph, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol. 107 (2010), pp. 4491-4498
9. R. Durrett and Stephen Moseley, Evolution of resistance and progression to disease during clonal expansion of cancer, Theor. Pop. Biol., vol. 77 (2010), pp. 42-48
10. R. Durrett, J. Foo, K. Leder, J. Mayberry, and F. Michor, Evolutionary dynamics of tumor progression with random fitness values, Theor. Pop. Biol., vol. 78 (2010), pp. 54-66 [math.PR/1003.1927]
11. Durrett, Rick and Mayberry, John, Evolution in predator-prey systems, Stochastic Processes and their Applications, vol. 120 no. 7 (2010), pp. 1364--1392, ISSN 0304-4149 [MR2011d:92087]
12. R. Durrett and Daniel Remenik, Brunet-Derrida particle systems, free boundary problems and Weiner-Hopf equations, Annals of Probability, vol. 39 (2010), pp. 2043-2078
13. R. Durrett and Shirshendu Chatterjee, Asymptotic behavior of Aldous' gossip process, Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 21 (2010), pp. 2447-2482 [math.PR/1005.1608]
14. R. Durrett, Special invited paper: Coexistence in stochastic spatial models, The Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 19 (2009), pp. 477--496, ISSN 1050-5164 [MR2521876 (2010g:60213)]
15. R. Durrett, Random Graph Dynamics, Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics (2007), pp. x+212, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ISBN 978-0-521-86656-9; 0-521-86656-1 [MR2271734 (2008c:05167)]

Selected Invited Lectures

1. IMS Wald Lectures, 2008    
2. Medallion Lecture SPA Paris, 2006    
3. St Flour Probability Summer School, 1993    
4. International Congress of Math, 1990, Kyoto    

Recent Grant Support

• Mathematical Models of Cancer Initiation Progression and Reistance to Therapy, National Institutes of Health, 7R01GM096190-02, 2010/07-2014/06.      
• Ecology, Evolution, and Random Graphs, National Science Foundation, DMS-1057675, 2010/09-2013/07.