Richard Kenyon received his PhD from Princeton University in 1990 under the direction of William Thurston. After a postdoc at IHES, he held positions at CNRS in Grenoble, Lyon, and Orsay, before becoming a professor at UBC for 3 years and then moving to Brown University where he is currently…

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Takashi Kumagai studied at Kyoto University, where he defended his PhD thesis in 1994 (supervisor: Shinzo Watanabe). After working at Osaka University and Nagoya University, he went back to Kyoto University in 1998. He is now a professor at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), Kyoto University. His research …

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Marta Sanz-Solé is a professor of Mathematics at the University of Barcelona. She is a member of the Institute of Catalan Studies and a Fellow of the IMS. Her research interests are in the field of stochastic analysis, specially Malliavin calculus and stochastic partial differential equations. She is, and has …

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Mark Girolami is an EPSRC Established Career Research Fellow (2012–2018) and was previously an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow (2007–2012). He is the Director of the Lloyds Register Foundation Turing Programme on Data Centric Engineering, and previously led the EPSRC-funded Research Network on Computational Statistics and Machine Learning which is now …

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The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is now accepting nominations for the following IMS Named and Medallion Lectures. 2019 Wald Lecturer: The Wald Memorial Lectures honor Professor Abraham Wald. The Wald Lecturer gives two, three or four one-hour talks on one subject. This gives sufficient time to develop material in…

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