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Kenneth W. Wachter

Professor of the Graduate School in Department of Demography at Berkeley California.

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.   

Research Interests: 

Mathematical demography, models for the evolution of aging, simulation.

Visit website: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/people/ken-wachter

See also: Academia University of California, Berkeley - Public land-grant research university

Details last updated 31-Jan-2020

Kenneth W. Wachter News

Mortality rate flattens among the oldest of the old

Mortality rate flattens among the oldest of the old

New York Times - 28-Jun-2018

After 105 mortality rate rise more slowly and it may be related to better genes and lifestyle