Ken Wachter

Professor Emeritus


Website
http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~wachter

Phone
(510) 642-1578

Email
wachter@demog.berkeley.edu

Office Hours
Tuesdays 1:00 P.M. by appointment


Research Expertise and Interests
Mathematical demography, statistical models for the evolution of aging, systematic constraints and random influences that shape the structure of human populations, computer simulation methods.

Research Description
http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/kenneth-wachter

Ken Wachter has held a joint appointment in Demography and Statistics at Berkeley since 1979. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1968 and his Ph.D. in Statistics from Cambridge in 1974, completing a thesis on random matrix eigenvalues under the supervision of David Kendall and John Kingman.??? ?
After time at Bell Laboratories, at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and teaching at Harvard, he came to Berkeley originally as a Miller Fellow. His books include Statistical Studies of Historical Social Structure (1978), Height, Health, and History (1990), and the collection Between Zeus and the Salmon (1997). ``A Mutation-Selection Model for General Genotypes with Recombination'', written with Steve Evans and David Steinsaltz,? has just been published (2013) as a Memoir of the American Mathematical Society.?? ?
A member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1999, he serves on the Editorial Board of PNAS handling social sciences. His wife is a CAL alumna and his poodle Ambrose an enthusiastic CAL fan.
Research Areas
Applications in the Social Sciences