Biography:Ed Perkins
Ed Perkins | |
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| Born | Edwin Arend Perkins 1953 (age 72–73) |
| 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
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
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
- ↑ "Perkins, Edwin Arend, 1953-". LC Name Authority File. US Library of Congress. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85815001.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Professor Edwin Perkins FRS". Fellows Directory. Royal Society. https://royalsociety.org/people/edwin-perkins-12084/.
- ↑ "Ed Perkins". UBC Department of Mathematics. https://www.math.ubc.ca/user/2700.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Curriculum vitae". https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~perkins/cv.html.
- ↑ Ed Perkins at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Canada Research Chairs in the Mathematical Sciences". CMS Notes de la SMC 35 (3): 10. April 2003. https://notes.math.ca/archives/Notesv35n3.pdf. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "The 2003 CRM-Fields Prize awarded to John McKay and Edwin Perkins". Prizes and honours. Centre de Recherches Mathématiques. https://www.crmath.ca/en/prizes-and-honours/crm-fields-pims-prize/2003-crm-fields-prize-john-mckay-and-edwin-perkins/.
- ↑ "Rollo Davidson Awards 1976 – 2024". University of Cambridge Statistical Laboratory. https://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/rollo-davidson-awards-1976-2024.
- ↑ "Ed Perkins". Champaign News-Gazette. https://uofi150.news-gazette.com/people/ed-perkins.
External links
- Home page
- Ed Perkins publications indexed by Google Scholar
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