Robin Pemantle
Professor of Mathematics and
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Honors and Awards: Institue of Mathematical Statistics Fellow - 2001, Romnes Fellow - 1997, Sloan foundation Faculty Research Fellow - 1993
Research Expertise: Probability Theory | Combinatorics
Robin's research interests include probability theory, where he studies random walks, urn schemes and reinforcement schemes, tree-indexed process, branching processes, any probability model involving trees, discrete potential theory, particle systems, percolation, mixing rates Markov chains, and pathwise properties of Brownian motion. He also studies combinatorics, including asymptotics of multivariable generating functions, optimization, enumerative combinatorics, and spanning trees of graphs.
Education:
PhD Probability Theory 1988 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Recent Publications 
- On sharp transitions in making squares, Croot, E. | Granville, A. | Pemantle, R. | Tetali, P., Annals of Mathematics, 2012
- Asymptotics of multivariate sequences, part III: Quadratic points, Baryshnikov, Y. | Pemantle, R., Advances in Mathematics, 2011
- Two-dimensional Quantum Random Walk, Baryshnikov, Y. | Brady, W. | Bressler, A. | Pemantle, R., Journal of Statistical Physics, 2011
- The critical ising model on trees, concave recursions and nonlinear capacity, Pemantle, R. | Peres, Y., Annals of Probability, 2010
- A dynamic model of social network formation, Skyrms, B. | Pemantle, R., Understanding Complex Systems, 2009