Ed Perkins
Ed Perkins | |
|---|---|
| Born | Edwin Arend Perkins 1953 (age 71–72) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | A Nonstandard Approach to Brownian Local Time |
| Doctoral advisor | Frank Bardsley Knight |
| Website | www |
Edwin Arend Perkins (born 1953)[1] is a Canadian mathematician specializing in probability theory, including the analysis of Brownian motion and the applications to probability of non-standard analysis.[2] He is a professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics at the University of British Columbia.[3]
Education and career
[edit]Perkins received a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1975 from the University of Toronto.[4] He obtained his PhD in 1979 under the supervision of Frank Bardsley Knight at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with a dissertation titled 'A Nonstandard Approach to Brownian Local Time'.[5]
He came to the University of British Columbia as a postdoctoral researcher in 1979, and became an assistant professor there in 1982. He was promoted to associate professor in 1985 and full professor in 1989.[4] He was given a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Probability in 2001.[6]
Recognition
[edit]Perkins was elected to the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) in 1988[7] and to the Royal Society (FRS) in 2007.[2]
He was the 1983 recipient of the Rollo Davidson Prize,[8] the 2002 recipient of the Jeffery–Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society[2] and (with John McKay) one of two recipients of the 2003 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize.[7]
In 2019 the University of Illinois gave him their Mathematics Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Perkins, Edwin Arend, 1953-". LC Name Authority File. US Library of Congress. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ a b c "Professor Edwin Perkins FRS". Fellows Directory. Royal Society. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ "Ed Perkins". UBC Department of Mathematics. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ a b "Curriculum vitae". Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ Ed Perkins at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Canada Research Chairs in the Mathematical Sciences" (PDF). CMS Notes de la SMC. Vol. 35, no. 3. April 2003. p. 10. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ a b "The 2003 CRM-Fields Prize awarded to John McKay and Edwin Perkins". Prizes and honours. Centre de Recherches Mathématiques. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ "Rollo Davidson Awards 1976 – 2024". University of Cambridge Statistical Laboratory. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ "Ed Perkins". University of Illinois: 150 Years & Beyond. Champaign News-Gazette. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
External links
[edit]- Home page
- Ed Perkins publications indexed by Google Scholar
