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        Douglas G. Kelly 
          Professor
          Department of Statistics and Operations Research

        Brief biography:  My undergraduate degree in Mathematics is from Princeton University in 1961.  I worked for IBM for a year and then entered graduate school at Indiana University in Bloomington.  I finished the PhD in Mathematics in 1967.  After a postdoctoral fellowship at Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech, I came to UNC-CH in 1968.  Except for sabbaticals, I have been here since then.  

        I was chair of the Department of Statistics from 1995 until 2000 and Senior Associate Dean for the Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences from 2000 until 2004.

        Teaching:  This semester (Fall 2007), I am teaching a First-Year Seminar: STOR062, Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Probability.  This is the same FYS that I taught in the previous four years.  I am also teaching STOR555, Mathematical Statistics.  This is a course in the theory of statistical inference for upper-level undergraduates and Master's students.I have also written a textbook, Introduction to Probability, published in 1994 by Prentice-Hall. This is a post-calculus text for upper-level undergraduates.  At present the webpages for these courses are available only to enrolled students through <blackboard.unc.edu>.

        Research interests:   One of my current interests is in evolutionary game theory.  At various times in the past, I have worked on mathematical physics (the Ising model), combinatorics (matroid theory), applications of probability in combinatorics and optimization, and modeling and data analysis in neuroscience. Some of my recent research publications are listed here.

         
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        Send me an e-mail message at  dgkelly@email.unc.edu.


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