Richard Cowan
Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney.

After decades of failing to pay attention to the PR side of scientific research, I attempted a few years ago to build a comprehensive website which shows my mathematical interests over the years. Currently the website has:

• an abundance of pictures to illustrate my own research work;
• problems I haven't solved (inviting others to do so);
• special mention of a mathematical formula, named  Cowan's Identity by others ( and I am pleased about that, of course);
• my favorite tutorial and exam problems, available for use;
• downloads (PDF or postscript) of papers, not yet subject to publisher's copyright (or where authorised by publisher);
• data sets from some of my papers (available for downloading);
• a list of my publications;
• typos and (heaven forbid) other mistakes in my papers.

The web site is a personal stock-taking of my work, with lots of undisciplined fun, rather more than it is an ego-trip.

• Most areas of probability, both theory and applications.
• Stochastic models in molecular biology and biochemistry.
• Distribution theory.
• Stochastic models of road traffic.
• Random geometry (and random topology).
• Branching processes.
• Research into the game of contract bridge.
• Game theory or dabblings in such.
• Statistics in cellular biology.
• Miscellaneous areas in Probability and Statistics.