I am a PhD student in probability and stochastic processes at the University of Queensland in St Lucia, Queensland, Australia. My main interest is in applications of stochastic processes (such as Markov chains) to biological and other 'complex' systems.

Contributions

My contributions include:

• I am involved in the following WikiProjects:

WikiProject Probability, WikiProject Mathematics, WikiProject Mathematics/PlanetMath Exchange.

• New contributions to:

Ross River virus, Phase diagrams of the logistic map (small, large), Constant random variable, Laplace-Stieltjes transform, applied probability, Lebesgue-Stieltjes integration, Fatou's lemma, probability generating functions, Markov's inequality, Abel's theorem and population processes.

• Significant contributions to existing articles:

Logistic map, Probability mass function, Convergence of random variables, Markov property.

• General contributions to articles on mathematics, especially those concerning applied probability.

.plan

In lieu of a real .plan file, I'll just state my plan!

I recently found the sunset article. It has such a lovely set of pictures (not to mention that it's an interesting topic) that I've decided to start bringing it up to featured article standard. Have a go yourself!

--Ben Cairns 04:57, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC).

The best-laid plans...

Things to do...

• Rework the articles moment (mathematics), moment about the mean, skewness, kurtosis, leptokurtic and platykurtic. These need to be made consistent in style and complementary in content.
• Clean up probability density function and cumulative distribution function.
• Consider merge of continuous random variable and discrete random variable into random variable.

External links

My personal and professional web site can be found here:

• http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/~bjc/

It includes a summary of my research interests and published and submitted papers.

Copyrights

For the moment, while the GFDL remains the sole official license under which the Wikipedia is released, I choose not to multi-license my contributions. Above all, I think that it is important to have a common approach to copyright issues, and I'm not sure that I understand (or even agree with) the politics behind the recent multi-licensing push.