Lester E. Dubins

JOB TITLE: Professor Emeritus

Other Affiliations: Department of Statistics, Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science

UC In Memoriam bibliography

Statistics Department In Memoriam

Wikipedia page

RESEARCH AREA: Geometry/Topology,  Probability

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Probability, Gambling theory, Geometry

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 

1. Lester E. Dubins, Ashok P. Maitra, and William D. Sudderth. Invariant gambling problems and Markov decision processes. In Handbook of Markov decision processes, volume 40 of Internat. Ser. Oper. Res. Management Sci., pages 409-428. Kluwer Acad. Publ., Boston, MA, 2002.
2. Lester E. Dubins. Paths of finitely additive Brownian motion need not be bizarre. In Séminaire de Probabilités, XXXIII, volume 1709 of Lecture Notes in Math., pages 395-396. Springer, Berlin, 1999.
3. Lester E. Dubins. Discrete red-and-black with fortune-dependent win probabilities. Probab. Engrg. Inform. Sci., 12(4):417-424, 1998.
4. Lester E. Dubins. The gambler's ruin problem for periodic walks. In Statistics, probability and game theory, volume 30 of IMS Lecture Notes Monogr. Ser., pages 7-12. Inst. Math. Statist., Hayward, CA, 1996.
5. Lester Dubins, Jacob Feldman, Meir Smorodinsky, and Boris Tsirelson. Decreasing sequences of sigma-fields and a measure change for Brownian motion. Ann. Probab., 24(2):882-904, 1996.