Persi Diaconis

Professor, Stanford University

Persi Diaconis is a mathematician and statistician working in probability, combinatorics, and group theory, with a focus on applications to statistics and scientific computing. A specialty is rates of convergence of Markov chains. He is currently interested in trying to adapt the many mathematical developments to say something useful to practitioners in large real-world simulations.

Program Visits

Counting Complexity and Phase Transitions, Spring 2016, Visiting Scientist