Timothy Prescott

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.

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.  I am currently investigating stochastic processes and also dabbling in machine learning.

• 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.

Ph D, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008.
MA, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003.
BS, Harvey Mudd College, 2002.

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)