EDUCATION
|
M.A. in mathematics
|
1979 |
Maria Curie-Sklodowska Univ.,
Lublin, Poland
|
| M.A. in statistics |
1981 |
University of California, Berkeley |
| Ph.D. in statistics
(thesis)
|
1984 |
University of California, Berkeley |
EMPLOYMENT
| Visiting Asst. Prof. |
University of California, San Diego |
1984-85 |
| Assistant Professor |
Polish Academy of Sciences |
1985-87 |
| Visiting Asst. Prof. |
Purdue University |
1987-88 |
| Assistant Professor |
University of Washington, Seattle |
1988-90 |
| Associate Professor |
University of Washington, Seattle |
1990-93 |
| Professor |
University of Washington, Seattle |
1993-present |
HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, ETC.
| 1975 |
First Prize at the Polish Mathematical Olympiad |
| 1980-82 |
Stanley M. Tasheira and Genevieve Lichtig Fellowship and
Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1984-85 |
S.E. Warschawski Assistant Professorship, University of California, San Diego |
| 1992 |
American Mathematical Society Centennial Research
Fellowship |
| 1992 |
Rollo Davidson Prize |
| 1999 |
"Kolmogorov Lecture" (Fields Institute, Toronto) |
| 1999 |
Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
DOCTORAL STUDENTS
1. John Verzani (1994)
"Path
Properties
of Historical Super-Brownian Motion"
2. Siva Athreya (1998)
"Probability
and Semilinear Partial Differential Equations"
3. Dorothea Eberz-Wagner (1999)
"Discrete
Growth Models"
4. Rajesh Nandy (2001)
"Estimation of spectral gap using coupling techniques"
5. Jason Swanson (2004)
"Variations of
stochastic processes: alternative approaches"
6. David White (2005)
"Processes with inert
drift"
7. Sona Zaveri (2006)
"The Second Eigenfunction of the
Neumann Laplacian on Thin Regions"