Probability resources

This page collects some on-line probability resources. It is intended primarily for postgraduate students.

Research

• Recent papers in probability at arxiv; MathSciNet search; MSC 2010; AMS serial abbreviations.

Probability on the web

• Probability Web; Women in Probability; Chance; Probability Tutorials.

Indexes and portals

• ORCID; European Mathematical Information Service; ResearcherID; ResearchGate.
• Dissertations and Theses: ProQuest (US & Worldwide); EThOS (UK); theses.fr (France).

Advice for postgraduate students

• Wisdom from Sara Billey, Fan Chung Graham, Carl Mueller, Gian-Carlo Rota, Michael Steele, Terry Tao. Uri Alon on how to choose a good scientific problem. Mark Dredze on how to be a successful PhD student. Nick Higham on how to read and understand a paper.

Professional development

• Vitae site, including researcher development framework.

Open problems

• From David Aldous, Krzysztof Burdzy, Thomas Liggett, Michel Talagrand. Open problems in Combinatorics.

Journals

• See this page for a selection.

Learned societies

• AMS; Bernoulli Society; EMS; IMS; LMS; IMA; RSS.

Events

• APTS courses.
• RSS applied probability; IMA; LMS; EMS; IMS; Bernoulli Society.

Durham training

• MAGIC lecture courses.
• CAROD (Centre for Academic, Researcher & Organisation Development) courses.
• CIS training courses.

Durham regulations and resources

• Core regulations, code of practice, and learning and teaching handbook entries for research degrees.
• PG webpages including LaTeX templates.
• Library (new books, e-journals); statistics seminars; teaching weeks.

Computing

• Condor.
• Detexify LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition.
• PSTricks.
• R home page and search.
• The Integrator.

Mailing lists

• Applied probability; PiNE; ALLSTAT.

History and biography

• MacTutor History of Mathematics archive; John Aldrich's Figures from the History of Probability and Statistics.
• Materials for the History of Statistics, including Portraits of Statisticians and Life and Work of Statisticians.
• Mathematical Quotes here and here; Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• Collected papers of Paul Erdős; Kai Lai Chung Papers; Karl Pearson's Hampstead Home; Laplace on probability and statistics.