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EURANDOM Newsletter
Volume II, Issue 2 -- August 2000
NEWS
The Board of EURANDOM is very pleased to announce the appointment of Frank den Hollander (now professor at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands and coordinator of the group Interacting Stochastic Systems) as scientific director of EURANDOM for 5 years. He will have a permanent appointment as a professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) in the department of Mathematics and Computing Science
Furthermore the Board decided to appoint Henry Wynn (professor at the University of Warwick, UK) for 2 years as part-time co-director. He will especially give attention to managing the area of Applications of Statistics and he will assist the scientific director.
Starting date for both appointments: October 1, 2000.
On that same date Willem van Zwet will step down as scientific director; he will continue his work for EURANDOM until September 1, 2001.
***
Professor Mike Keane was nominated as a foreign member of the Chilean Academy of
Sciences (end of July).
On April 17, 2000 professor
Aad van der Vaart received the Van
Dantzig Award 2000; professor Willem van Zwet was nominated as member
of honour of the VVS, the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations
Research.
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With the appointment of three postdocs, the group Computational Molecular Biology will start in September 2000. Furthermore a workshop in this area is planned in January 2001.
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The first EURANDOM postdocs (who started in September, October,
November 1998) with 2-year-contracts, are beginning to leave EURANDOM.
They all found new jobs at prestigious other universities or research
centers.
*Brandon Whitcher obtained a research position at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research, Geophysical
Statistics Project, CGD.
*Matthias Löwe accepted an appointment as assistant professor at the University
of Nijmegen, The Netherlands (permanent position).
*Irina Kurkova got a permanent position as assistant professor at the university
Paris VI, France.
*Jeffrey Collamore moves to Zürich for a postdoc position at the
ETH.
*Franz Merkl goes to Bielefeld, were he will start the so-called 'Habilitation';
during this period he will be back for several months at EURANDOM.
*Cheikh Diack has an appointment as lecturer at the King Fahd University of
Petroleum and Minerals in Dahran.
Also Wim Schoutens, who was one year at EURANDOM on a FWO-grant, will leave to
return to the Catholic University of Leuven.
ACTIVITIES
The following a workshops will take place in (near) future:
*
Frontier Research
In Theoretical Statistics 2000 (August 17-19)
International conference
(in the fields of statistics and probability and their ramifications) on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Prof. Frits
Ruymgaart.
*
Course and Workshop of the Financial
Stochastics programme (August 23-26)
- Concentrated
course on Extremes and Financial Risks
- Workshop
on Risk, Insurance and Extremes
* Workshop on Fluid Queues (September 25-29, 2000)
* European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics -ENBIS meeting and course (December 2000)
Furthermore in 2001:
* Workshop on Stochastic Analysis :
Geometric aspects and applications organized together with DFG-Schwerpunkt (January 8 - 11)
* Workshop on Computational
Molecular Biology
* Workshop
on Inverse Problems in Statistics (January 25 - 27)
For more details and for an overview of the other, regular activities, please look at http://www.eurandom.tue.nl/announcements.htm .
NEW PEOPLE
* June, 15, 2000
Thea Looijmans, secretary
Postdocs:
* July 17, 2000
Bojan Basrak, Computational Molecular Biology
* August 31, 2000
Henri Matzinger, Interacting Stochastic Systems
(return after a one-year-stay in the US, MIT)
* September 1, 2000
Zbigniew Palmowski, Stochastic Networks
* September 17, 2000
Sonia Hernández Alonso, Computational Molecular Biology
* October 15, 2000
Jüri Lember, Application of Statistics / Complex Statistical
Models
* November 15, 2000
Francesca Nardi, Interacting Stochastic Systems
VISITORS
For past and coming visitors please consult http://www.eurandom.tue.nl/people.html#visitors
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