Richard Timothy Durrett
- James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics
- Professor of Mathematics
- Director of Graduate Studies of Mathematics
Research Areas and Keywords
Biological Modeling
Probability
Selected Grants
Collaborative Research: The role of spatial interactions in determining the distribution of savanna and forest awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2016 to 2019
Mathematical Analysis of Spatial Cancer Models awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2016 to 2019
The Mathematics of Breast Cancer Overtreatment: Improving Treatment Choice through Effective Communication of Personalized Cancer Risk awarded by National Institutes of Health (Co-Mentor). 2016 to 2018
Interacting Particle Systems on Lattices and on Graphs awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2018
Biodiversity and Evolution - Support for US Participants awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2013 to 2015
Stochastic Spatial Models: on Complex Networks, Coevolution, and Modeling Cancer awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2013 to 2015
Mathematical Models of Cancer Initiation, Progression, and Resistance to Therapy awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2010 to 2015
Ecology awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2010 to 2013
Participant Support for Workshop for Women in Probability 2012 awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2013
Chung, KL, Durrett, R, and Durrett, R. "Downcrossings and local time." Selected Works of Kai Lai Chung. January 1, 2008. 585-587. Full Text
Gleeson, JP, and Durrett, R. "Temporal profiles of avalanches on networks." Nature Communications 8.1 (December 2017). Full Text
Lopatkin, AJ, Meredith, HR, Srimani, JK, Pfeiffer, C, Durrett, R, and You, L. "Persistence and reversal of plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance." Nature communications 8.1 (November 22, 2017): 1689-. Full Text
Tomasetti, C, Durrett, R, Kimmel, M, Lambert, A, Parmigiani, G, Zauber, A, and Vogelstein, B. "Role of stem-cell divisions in cancer risk." Nature 548.7666 (August 9, 2017): E13-E14. Full Text
Huo, R, and Durrett, R. "Latent voter model on locally tree-like random graphs." Stochastic Processes and their Applications (August 2017). Full Text
Nanda, M, and Durrett, R. "Spatial evolutionary games with weak selection." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.23 (June 6, 2017): 6046-6051. Full Text
Bessonov, M, and Durrett, R. "Phase transitions for a planar quadratic contact process." Advances in Applied Mathematics 87 (June 2017): 82-107. Full Text
Durrett, R, and Fan, W-TL. "Genealogies in expanding populations." The Annals of Applied Probability 26.6 (December 2016): 3456-3490. Full Text
Cox, JT, and Durrett, R. "Evolutionary games on the torus with weak selection." Stochastic Processes and their Applications 126.8 (August 2016): 2388-2409. Full Text
Ryser, MD, Worni, M, Turner, EL, Marks, JR, Durrett, R, and Hwang, ES. "Outcomes of Active Surveillance for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ: A Computational Risk Analysis." Journal of the National Cancer Institute 108.5 (May 2016). Full Text
Durrett, R, Foo, J, and Leder, K. "Spatial Moran models, II: cancer initiation in spatially structured tissue." Journal of mathematical biology 72.5 (April 2016): 1369-1400. Full Text
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Seven graduate students received their Phd in mathematics at the 2017 Graduation Ceremony: Philip Andreae: [Advisor:Mark Stern] Analytic Torsion, the Eta Invariant, and Closed Differential Forms on Spaces of Metrics Brian Fitzpatrick: [... read more »
This summer, North Carolina School of Science and Math student Mridu Nanda spent five weeks on the Duke campus working with James B. Duke Professor Rick Durrett. The topic of their research was Spatial Evolutionary Games, which can be used to study... read more »
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Durham, NC - Racially and economically mixed cities are more likely to stay integrated if the density of households stays low, finds a new analysis of a now-famous model of segregation. By simulating the movement of families between neighborhoods in... read more »