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Ani Adhikari

Ani Adhikarj grew up in Calcutta, where she obtained a B.S. at the Indian Statistical Institute. She obtained a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley (1986), and is now an Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics, Stanford University. She is interested in probability theory, applied statistics, and statistical computing. She enjoys PostScript graphics, a sample of which can be found in this paper.

Jim Pitman

Jim Pitman grew up in Hobart, Tasmania. After obtaining a B.S. at the Australian National University, Canberra, he obtained a Ph.D. in probability theory at the University of Sheffield (1974). Since then he has mostly been at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now a Professor in the Department of Statistics. He spent two years at Cambridge University and shorter periods in Copenhagen and Paris. His main research interest is Brownian motion and related stochastic processes. He is currently completing an undergraduate textbook on probability.