Richard Cowan
Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney.

After decades of failing to pay attention to the PR side of scientific research, I have now gone overboard in this web-site, with (when the site is complete):

• an abundance of pictures to illustrate my own research work;
• problems I haven't solved (inviting others to do so);
• my favorite tutorial and exam problems, available for use;
• downloads (in postscript) of papers, not yet subject to publisher's copyright (or where authorised by publisher);
• data sets from some of my papers (available for downloading);
• a list of my publications;
• typos and (heaven forbid) other mistakes in my papers;
• my former graduate students and other co-authors;
• link to my site for probabilistic analysis of bridge hands (see my column "Chances").
• a description of my recent historical book "MARY TONDUT - The woman in the Catalpa story").

The web site is a personal stock-taking of my work, with lots of undisciplined fun, rather more than it is an ego-trip.

• Most areas of probability, both theory and applications.
• Stochastic models in molecular biology and biochemistry.
• Distribution theory.
• Stochastic models of road traffic .
• Random geometry (and random topology) .
• Branching processes.
• Research into the game of contract bridge.
• Game theory or dabblings in such.
• Statistics in cellular biology.
• Miscellaneous areas in Probability and Statistics.