Biography:Russell Lyons
Russell David Lyons (6 September 1957) is an American mathematician, specializing in probability theory on graphs, combinatorics, statistical mechanics, ergodic theory and harmonic analysis.[1]
Lyons graduated with B.A. mathematics in 1979 from Case Western Reserve University,[2] where he became a Putnam Fellow in 1977 and 1978.[3] He received his Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of Michigan with the thesis A Characterization of Measures Whose Fourier-Stieltjes Transforms Vanish at Infinity, which was supervised by Hugh L. Montgomery and Allen Shields.[4] Lyons was a postdoc for the academic year 1984–1985 at the University of Paris-Sud. He was an assistant professor at Stanford University from 1985 to 1990 and an associate professor at Indiana University from 1990 to 1994. At Georgia Tech he was a full professor from 2000 to 2003. At Indiana University he was a professor of mathematics from 1994 to 2014 and is since 2014 the James H. Rudy Professor of Mathematics; there he has also been an adjunct professor of statistics since 2006.[2]
Lyons has held visiting positions in the United States, France, and Israel.[2] In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[1] In 2014 he was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Seoul.[5] In 2017 a conference was held in Tel Aviv in honor of his 60th birthday.[6]
Selected publications
- Lyons, Russell (1990). "Random Walks and Percolation on Trees". The Annals of Probability 18 (3): 931–958. doi:10.1214/aop/1176990730.
- Lyons, Russell; Pemantle, Robin; Peres, Yuval (1995). "Conceptual Proofs of L Log L Criteria for Mean Behavior of Branching Processes". The Annals of Probability 23 (3): 1125–1138. doi:10.1214/aop/1176988176.
- Lyons, Russell (1997). "A Simple Path to Biggins' Martingale Convergence for Branching Random Walk". Classical and Modern Branching Processes. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications. 84. pp. 217–221. doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-1862-3_17. ISBN 978-1-4612-7315-8.
- Schramm, Oded; Peres, Yuval; Lyons, Russell; Benjamini, Itai (2001). "Uniform spanning forests". The Annals of Probability 29: 1–65. doi:10.1214/aop/1008956321.
- Aldous, David; Lyons, Russell (2007). "Processes on unimodular random networks". Electronic Journal of Probability 12: 1454–1508. doi:10.1214/EJP.v12-463. http://emis.de/journals/EJP-ECP/_ejpecp/include/getdoc7e6a.pdf.
- Lyons, Russell; Peres, Yuval (2017-01-20). Probability on Trees and Networks. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316785331. https://books.google.com/books?id=tLDFDQAAQBAJ.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "American Mathematical Society's first class of fellows includes six from IU Bloomington". 9 November 2012. http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news-archive/23434.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Russell David Lyons, CV". http://pages.iu.edu/~rdlyons/pdf/cv-web.pdf.[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
- ↑ "Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners". Mathematical Association of America. http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/putnam-competition-individual-and-team-winners.
- ↑ Russell David Lyons at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Determinantal Probability: Basic Properties and Conjectures". Proceedings of the ICM, Seoul 2014. 4. pp. 137–161. arXiv preprint
- ↑ "Elegance in probability: A conference honoring Russell Lyons' 60th birthday, September 3–7 2017, Tel Aviv". https://imstat.org/meetings-calendar/elegance-in-probability-a-conference-honoring-russell-lyonss-60th-birthday/.
- ↑ Durrett, Richard (15 May 2017). "Review of Probability on Trees and Networks by Russell Lyons and Yuval Peres". https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/probability-on-trees-and-networks.
External links
- "Russell Lyons, homepage". http://pages.iu.edu/~rdlyons/.
- "ICM2014 VideoSeries IL 12.4 : Russell Lyons on Aug16Sat". Seoul ICM VOD. 18 August 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usKriDM1aHU.
- "Russell Lyons - Poisson-Furstenberg boundaries and the Kaimanovich-Vershik conjecture". Israel Institute for Advance Studies. 11 October 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2mSE7f8U-Q. (joint with Yuval Peres)
- "Random orderings and unique ergodicity of automorphism groups - Russell Lyons". Institute for Advanced Study. 13 September 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDrQV5lXjfc.
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