Spatial Stochastic Processes: A Festschrift in Honor of Ted Harris on his Seventieth Birthday: 19 (Progress in Probability, 19) - Hardcover

Alexander, K.S.; Watkins, J.C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817634770 ISBN 13: 9780817634773

Publisher: Birkhauser Boston Inc, 1991

Synopsis

This volume has been created in honor of the seventieth birthday of Ted Harris, which was celebrated on January 11th, 1989. The papers rep­ resent the wide range of subfields of probability theory in which Ted has made profound and fundamental contributions. This breadth in Ted's research complicates the task of putting together in his honor a book with a unified theme. One common thread noted was the spatial, or geometric, aspect of the phenomena Ted investigated. This volume has been organized around that theme, with papers covering four major subject areas of Ted's research: branching processes, percola­ tion, interacting particle systems, and stochastic flows. These four topics do not· exhaust his research interests; his major work on Markov chains is commemorated in the standard technology "Harris chain" and "Harris recurrent" . The editors would like to take this opportunity to thank the speakers at the symposium and the contributors to this volume. Their enthusi­ astic support is a tribute to Ted Harris. We would like to express our appreciation to Annette Mosley for her efforts in typing the manuscripts and to Arthur Ogawa for typesetting the volume. Finally, we gratefully acknowledge the National Science Foundation and the University of South­ ern California for their financial support.

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Spanning the interests of Ted Harris, a major contributor to probability theory and stochastic processes, 11 papers, apparently presented at a gathering in San Diego, January 1989, discuss branching patterns, percolation, interacting particle systems, and stochastic flows. The combination of literature surveys, recent results, and suggestions for f

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhauser Boston Inc
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817634770
• ISBN 13: 9780817634773
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 270