Ben Morris

I am an Associate Professor in the Mathematics Department at UC Davis. My research interests include Markov chain Monte Carlo, random walks on graphs and probability on trees.

Teaching

math 135A

math 280

Publications

Mixing time of the Thorp shuffle. To appear in SIAM journal on computing. ps

Spectral gap for the zero range process with constant rate. Annals of Probability. ps

The mixing time for simple exclusion. Annals of Applied Probability. ps

(with Yuval Peres) Evolving sets, mixing and heat kernel bounds.  PTRF. ps

The Components of the Wired Spanning Forest are Recurrent.  PTRF 125 (2003), pp. 259-265.    ps

(with Alistair Sinclair) Random Walks on Truncated Cubes and Sampling 0-1 knapsack solutions.

SIAM journal on computing 34 (2004), pp. 195-226. ps

Improved Bounds for Sampling Contingency Tables.  Random Structures and Algorithms 21 (2002), pp. 135-146.   ps

Random Walks in Convex Sets (thesis).     ps