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Richard Timothy Durrett

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
Mathematics
Dept of Math, Box 90320, Durham, NC 27708-0320
120 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0320

Current Appointments & Affiliations


James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics · 2023 - Present Mathematics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics · 2023 - Present Mathematics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published January 10, 2023
Modeling the COVID Roller Coaster
Published March 16, 2016
New Collaborative Seed Grant Program Gives Eight Awards
Published November 4, 2015
Mathematical models key to designing better cancer treatment strategies

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Recent Publications


A stochastic spatial model for the sterile insect control strategy

Journal Article Stochastic Processes and their Applications · March 1, 2023 In the system we study, 1’s and 0’s represent occupied and vacant sites in the contact process with births at rate λ and deaths at rate 1. −1’s are sterile individuals that do not reproduce but appear spontaneously on vacant sites at rate α and die at rate ... Full text Cite

Corrigendum to: The contact process on periodic trees (Electronic Communications in Probability)

Journal Article Electronic Communications in Probability · January 1, 2023 In [1] we considered periodic trees in which the number of children in successive generations is (n, a1, …, ak ) with maxi ai ≤ Cn1−δ and (log ai)/ log n → bi as n → ∞. Our proof ... Full text Cite

Competitive exclusion in a model with seasonality: Three species cannot coexist in an ecosystem with two seasons.

Journal Article Theoretical population biology · December 2022 Chan, Durrett, and Lanchier introduced a multitype contact process with temporal heterogeneity involving two species competing for space on the d-dimensional integer lattice. Time is divided into two seasons. They proved that there is an open set of the pa ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Four Challenging Probability Problems

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2025

Support for Southeastern Probability Conference

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2024

Voters, games, and epidemics on random graphs

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2023

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Education, Training & Certifications


Stanford University · 1976 Ph.D.