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James Pitman is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has specialized in the fields of Probability, stochastic processes, and combinatorics, and he has made significant contributions to research on topics such as maximal differences of Brownian bridges and exchangeable partitions of random discrete distributions. He was appointed to the faculty in 1977 and retired in 2021. Pitman's published works include influential texts and papers such as 'Combinatorial stochastic processes' and 'Growth of the Brownian forest.' He is actively engaged in the academic community and continues to influence the fields of statistics and mathematics through his research and teachings, reflecting his longstanding commitment to advancing knowledge in these areas.
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