Biography:Ed Perkins

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Short description: Canadian mathematician (born 1953)
Ed Perkins
Born
Edwin Arend Perkins

(1953-08-31) August 31, 1953 (age 71)
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Scientific career
ThesisA Nonstandard Approach to Brownian Local Time
Doctoral advisorFrank Bardsley Knight
Websitewww.math.ubc.ca/~perkins/perkins.html

Edwin Arend Perkins, FRS, FRSC (born 31 August 1953) is a Canadian mathematician who has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia since 1989 and Canada Research Chair in Probability since 2001. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1988 and to the Royal Society in 2007. He won the 2003 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize.[1][2]

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'.

References

  1. PERKINS, Prof. Edwin Arend, Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2010; online edn, Oct 2010 accessed 5 Aug 2011
  2. "Home Page of Ed Perkins". https://secure.math.ubc.ca/~perkins/perkins.html.