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Edward Charles Waymire holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Mathematics and in the Department of Statistics at Oregon State University. He has a 1976 PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Arizona. Waymire recently completed a four-year term as editor in chief of the Annals of Applied Probability, and currently serves as an Associate Editor for Probability Surveys, the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society and the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics. He is a past editor of the journal Bernoulli. Waymire has served on numerous committees of professional societies, including chair of the Bernoulli Society's Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (CPS^2) and Committee on Conferences in Stochastic Processes (CCSP). He is co-author with Rabi Bhattacharya of Stochastic Processes with Applications, Wiley (1990) and reprinted in the Classics in Applied Mathematics Series by SIAM, 2009, and A Basic Course in Probability Theory, Springer (2007). His most recent research interests concern skew Brownian motion and/or multiplicative cascades in connection with broad classes of applications involving dispersion, flow and disorder in heterogeneous environments.
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Wilfrid Kendall studied Oxford from 1975 through to 1978, gaining successively a BA, and MSc, and a DPhil. These degrees in Art, Science, and Philosophy give a completely misleading impression of polymathy; in fact, they all represent studies in mathematics, with an increasing tendency toward probability and its applications, especially in stochastic geometry. His academic employment began with a lectureship in Statistics at Hull (1978-1984), followed by a move to Strathclyde (in Glasgow, Scotland, 1984-1988), with promotion to senior lecturer in 1987. This appeared to be establishing a pattern of a slow drift northward; however, the next transition brought him to the metric barycentre of England, with a move to Warwick as lecturer, and then progressively reader and professor. It is a matter of some surprise to him that he has spent nearly quarter of a century in Warwick; it doesn't seem anything like that long. Since then he has served the scientific community in various ways, notably as founding Coordinating Editor for the Stochastic Geometry and Statistical Applications section of Advances in Applied Probability (1993-1999), Scientific Secretary of the Bernoulli Society (1996-2000), Chief Editor of Electronic Communications in Probability and Chairman of the Warwick Statistics Department (both 1999-2002), Scientific Programme Chair for the Sixth Bernoulli/IMS World Congress in Barcelona (2004), and co-director of the UK Academy of PhD Training in Statistics (APTS, 2007 to date), which is a initiative for training first-year PhD students on a national scale in both the UK and Ireland. He was elected a member of the ISI in 1999 and Fellow of the IMS in 2000. He has published around 120 scientific papers in probability and its applications, especially to stochastic geometry.
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The new editor-in chief of Stochastic Processes and their Applications will be Takashi Kumagai, Professor of Mathematics at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences of Kyoto University in Japan. Takashi will take over from the present editor-in-chief, Thomas Mikosch, on April 1, 2012.
Takashi received his PhD in 1994 from Kyoto University under the supervision of Shinzo Watanabe. He held a research position at Osaka University from 1991 to 1995 and an associate professorship at Nagoya University from 1995 to 1998, before moving to Kyoto. He held visiting scholarships/professorships in Bonn, Cornell, Oxford, Paris and Vancouver, and was invited speaker at a large number of international workshops and conferences. He has co-organized many scientific meetings himself. In 2010, he gave the St-Flour probability lectures.
Takashi brings considerable expertise to the journal. His research lies at the interface between probability and analysis. He has done groundbreaking work on the study of random walks on random graphs - including Galton-Watson trees, percolation clusters and random fractals - as well as Brownian motion and diffusions in disordered media. Over the years, he has been collaborating intensively with Martin Barlow, Rich Bass, Zhenqing Chen and Ben Hambly.
Takashi has served as associate editor for Annals of Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Communications in Probability, Probability Theory and Related Fields, Kyoto Journal of Mathematics and Publications of RIMS. He also is member of the advisory board of Mathematische Nachrichten.
Takashi will be the first editor-in-chief of SPA from Japan. SPA has deep links with Japan, because of the many outstanding Japanese researchers who have been and are working on stochastic processes. This tradition goes back to Kiyosi Itô, to whom SPA devoted a special issue in 2010. Elsevier supports the Itô-prize, which is awarded every two years for the best SPA paper.
Over the past years, SPA has been developing very well. All arrows are pointing up. The Publication Committee and the President of the Bernoulli Society wish Takashi all success in leading the journal for the next three years.
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Martin Barlow is Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of British Columbia. He received his PhD from the University of Wales in 1979, and following a postdoctoral fellowship at Liverpool, was a Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge until his move to UBC in 1992. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1998, and of the Royal Society in 2005. His main research interest is on random motion (random walk or diffusion) in random or irregular spaces - examples of these include fractals, random trees and percolation clusters.
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Alice Guionnet is CNRS Director of Research at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. She received her PhD from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1995, and following a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Courant Institute, New York University, she moved to the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and finally to the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon in 2000. She was a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley in 2006.
Alice Guionnet has held the position of editor-in-chief of the Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré between 2006 and remains as an associate editor today. She has also been an associate editor of Stochastic Processes and Applications from 1999 to 2006.
Most of her research is motivated by the understanding of the global behaviour of systems in high dimensions, often systems encountered in physics, using techniques from large deviations or coercive inequalities, and with excursion to combinatorics, free probability or PDE's.
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Arturo Kohatsu-Higa a Professor at the University of Osaka. He obtained his PhD at the Department of Statistics, Purdue Univeristy in 1992. After spending a year at the Univeristy of Puerto Rico as an Assistant Professor and two years at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Mexico City, moved to Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona where he spent many years before moving to Osaka. He has held visiting appointments at the Univeristies of Kyoto, Tokyo, Kanazawa, Marne-LaVallée (Paris) and at INRIA.
His research interests are in probability and stochastic Processes, particularly, stochastic analysis, Malliavin calculus and numerical analysis in stochastic calculus, with applications to physics, engineering, operations research and economics.
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Mikhail Lifshits was born in 1956 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), USSR. He obtained his MSc and PhD degrees under the guidance of Professor Yu.Davydovfrom Leningrad State University in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He received the Habilitation (Doctor of Sciences) degree in 1993. After a period of work in the industry and teaching at St. Petersburg University of Finance and Economy, he returned to his alma mater where he is teaching since 2000 and holds professorship at the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics. He also holds temporary teaching and research positions at foreign universities of Atlanta (Georgia Tech.), Helsinki, Lille, Paris, Strasbourg, Toulouse.
His research interests are situated in the theory of random processes: Gaussian processes, small and large deviation probabilities, distributions of stochastic functionals, stochastic systems of sticky particles, local times, etc.
He has authored and co-authored nearly one hundred research articles and the monographs "Gaussian Random Functions" (Kluwer, 1995), "Distributions of Stochastic Functionals" (AMS, 1996, jointly with Yu.Davydov and N.Smorodina).
He is serving as Associated Editor in the international journals Journal of Theoretical Probability, Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes and Applications, and as a co-editor of the series "Zapiski Seminarov PDMI. Probability and Statistics".
He is a Board Member of St. Petersburg Mathematical Society and a member of AMS.
Web page: http://sites.google.com/site/mlprobability/
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Alejandro Ramirez is a associate professor at the Facultad de Matemáticas at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His PhD in Mathematics was done at New York University supervised by S.R.S. Varadhan, obtained in 1996. After a year at the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, he held a two-year postdoctoral position at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Since 2006, he is associate editor of the journal Stochastic Processes and their Applications. His research interests include: interacting particle systems, random media, random walks in random environment.
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Neville Weber is currently Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney. He completed his PhD in Mathematical Statistics at the University of Sydney in 1981. During his career, he has held visiting positions at the University of Cambridge, the University of Michigan, the University of British Columbia and the University of Ottawa.
His research interests include asymptotic approximations for U-statistics, exchangeability, and Poisson regression. Recent work has focused on the behaviour of trimmed U-statistics and robust measures of spread.
In 1992, he was elected as a member of the International Statistical Institute and he was an associate editor for the International Statistical Review, 2004-2009. In 2001, he was awarded Honorary Life Membership of the Statistical Society of Australia Inc for services to the profession.