Welcome to Larry Shepp's Homepage

Research:

My major research interests are in probabilistic, combinatorial, and statistical analysis of models for problems arising in physics, engineering, and communications: computed tomography; automatic pattern recognition; probabilistic models for phase transitions; connectedness of random graphs; mathematics of finance; genetics.

For a list of publications go here .

Teaching:

Information about my summer Advanced Statistical Methods course at Stanford can be found here . For the latest stuff, here . Information about my Spring 2008 applied stochastic processes course 554 can be found here . For the latest stuff, here . Information about my Fall 2007 Advanced Probability course 681 can be found here . My talk: From Tukey to Vardi and Beyond (remarks on data mining) is here , for pdf, here .

More About Me

If you want to know me better, please enter here .

Family pictures, see here.

See here for a description of a trip to Iran.

See here for a description of a trip to Cuba. 

See here for a sad story about the abuse of Sheng-ming Ma.

For some recent preprints in pdf, see here, here, and here.

How to reach me

For links to mathematical activites in Russia, see here , here , and here .