David Aldous' interests are in discrete probability and its applications to the theory of algorithms; random combinatorial objects, random walks, probability models in physics and biology. For the flavor of this work see his expository articles in American Math Monthly, vol. 93 p. 333 and vol. 101 p. 223. titled Shuffling cards and stopping times and Triangulating the circle at random. He is the author of Probability Approximations via the Poisson Clumping Heuristic and is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the recipient of the Rollo Davidson and Loeve Prizes.
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