Probability at Berkeley

“It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge.”

—Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace, Théorie Analytique des Probabilités

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This is the homepage of the UC Berkeley Probability Group. The probability group includes faculty, postdocs, and students from the Departments of Statistics, Mathematics, and EECS at Berkeley. The group also includes, at any given time, a number of visitors and a number of faculty in other fields with interests in probability.

The group’s research interests span a broad array of topics in probability including random walks and Brownian motion, Markov chains, percolation, superprocesses, random matrices, random trees, combinatorial stochastic processes, phylogenetics, mathematical finance, and particle systems.

The group holds a weekly Probability Seminar and is often involved in programs and workshops at SLMath (previously MSRI) and the Simons Institute. Students in the group also run the Student Probability Seminar, a place to discover new topics in probability and learn about each other’s research in a more casual setting.

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Last updated March 05, 2026. See more here.