Timo Seppäläinen

John and Abigail Van Vleck Chair of Mathematics


Department of Mathematics
425 Van Vleck Hall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706-1388
Telephone: (608)-263-3624
Fax: (608)-263-8891
E-mail: seppalai (nen) at math (ematics) wisc (onsin) edu (cation)

Education

Ph.D. 1991 School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
M.Sc. 1986 Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University (formerly Helsinki University of Technology), Helsinki, Finland.
High School Diploma 1980 Helsinki I Normal School, Helsinki, Finland.

Research


Books

Book cover Damron, Rassoul-Agha and Seppäläinen (Editors): Random Growth Models. Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, Volume 75. American Mathematical Society, 2018.
This volume contains the lectures given at the 2017 AMS Short Course on Random Growth Models, January 2-3, 2017, Atlanta, GA. Click on the cover image to enlarge it.

Book cover Anderson, Seppäläinen and Valkó: Introduction to Probability, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
This is a calculus-based undergraduate probability textbook. The link takes you to a book page with a list of corrections.

Book cover Rassoul-Agha and Seppäläinen: A Course on Large Deviations with an Introduction to Gibbs Measures, American Mathematical Society, 2015.
This is a graduate textbook on large deviation theory and some statistical mechanics. Click on the cover image to enlarge it.   Corrections.


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Faculty positions, awards, honors and special lectures

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Post-doctoral visitors and graduate students

Editorial work

Teaching