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Timothy Prescott

  • Assoc. Professor, Mathematics

Contact Info

  • Email: timothy.prescott@UND.edu
  • Alt Email: timothy.prescott.UND@gmail.com
  • Office: 701.777.2427
  • Dept: 701.777.2881

Office Address

Witmer Hall Room 313
101 Cornell Street Stop 8376
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8376

Office Hours

By appointment only

Curriculum Vitae

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Biography

I am the data manager for the Math Active Learning Lab in O'Kelly 33.

Online sections of Math 165 (fall semester), 166 (spring semester), 265 (fall semester), and 266 (spring semester).  If you have difficulty registering because of prerequisite courses, find your previous course or contact me.

  • Timothy Prescott and Brian R. Urlacher
    Case Selection and the Comparative Method: Introducing the Case Selector.
    European Political Science (2017).
  • Timothy Prescott
    Quantifying a Candidate’s Advantage in the Electoral College.
    Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College (2017).
  • Pietro Caputo, Alessandra Faggionato, and Timothy Prescott
    Invariance principle for Mott variable range hopping and other walks on point processes. [ArXiv]
    Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Probabilités et Statistiques Volume 49 (2013), no. 3, 654-697.

  • Marek Biskup and Timothy M. Prescott.
    Functional CLT for Random Walk Among Bounded Random Conductances. [ArXiv]
    Electronic Journal of Probability Volume 12 (2007), no. 49, 1323-1348.

  • Timothy Prescott and Francis Edward Su.
    A Constructive Proof of Ky Fan's Generalization of Tucker's Lemma. [ArXiv]
    Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A Volume 111 (2005), no. 2, 257-265.

  • Timothy Prescott and Francis Edward Su.
    Random Walks on the Torus with Several Generators. [ArXiv]
    Random Structures & Algorithms Volume 25 (2004), no. 3, 336-345.

My specialty is probability, especially random walks in random environments and evolving shapes. I received my degree from UCLA, under the advising of Marek Biskup.

Open Calculus Textbook

Evolving Sets

Stochastic Diffusion with Oblique Reflection

Automated Grade Entry in NDUS's Campus Connection

Case Selector

Pioneer Monuments (work in progress)

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