Russell Lyons

Russell Lyons is the James H. Rudy Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Indiana University Bloomington. He specializes in discrete probability and its connections to ergodic theory, geometric group theory, analysis, and combinatorics. He is best known for his work on probability theory on trees and networks, including the textbook Probability on Trees and Networks co-authored with Yuval Peres. He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012 and was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.