James Pitman

Professor

Research

Primary Research Area:

Probability

Additional Research Areas:

Mathematical Analysis, Applied Mathematics

Research Interests:

Probability, stochastic processes, combinatorics, machine learning

Contact Information

303 Evans Hall

pitman [at] stat [dot] berkeley [dot] edu

+1 (510) 642-9970

Publications

Selected Publications:

Fadoua Balabdaoui and Jim Pitman (2011). The distribution of the maximal difference between a Brownian bridge and its concave majorant. Bernoulli 17 No.1, 466-483. [arXiv] [Project Euclid] [GS?]
Alexander Gnedin and Chris Haulk and Jim Pitman (2010). Characterizations of exchangeable partitions and random discrete distributions by deletion properties. In Probability and Mathematical Genetics: Papers in Honour of Sir John Kingman N. Bingham and C. Goldie editors. London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Series 378 Cambridge Univ. Press. [arXiv] [Collection] [arXiv] [GS?]
Pitman, J. (2006). Combinatorial stochastic processes. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 1875. Springer-Verlag Berlin x+256. Lectures from the 32nd Summer School on Probability Theory held in Saint-Flour, July 7-24, 2002, With a foreword by Jean Picard. [.pdf] [MR] [GS?]
Aldous, David and Pitman, Jim (2006). Two recursive decompositions of Brownian bridge related to the asymptotics of random mappings. In In memoriam Paul-André Meyer: Séminaire de Probabilités XXXIX Michel Émery and Marc Yor editors. Lecture Notes in Math. 1874 269-303 Springer Berlin. [arXiv] [MR] [GS?]
Pitman, Jim and Winkel, Matthias (2005). Growth of the Brownian forest. Ann. Probab. 33 No.6, 2188-2211. [.pdf] [arXiv] [MR] [GS?]