PROBABILITY AWARDS IN 2000
This awards list for the Probability portion of the Statistics and Probability
program includes the names of investigators supported during the fiscal
year 2000 (FY00), which began on October 1, 1999. Hence the list includes
those investigators who received new or renewed grants in FY00 plus those
who were still supported from the program on a Continuing Award
basis, as well as those whose awards were made in earlier years on a Standard
Award basis (i.e., funded all at once) and which were still active
at the end of FY00. [Bracketed information following the name of the investigator
indicates the first year of the award. Those not indicated as Standard
are Continuing.] Acronyms identify awards made for special programs, as
follows:
- BIO Biocomplexity
- CAREER Faculty Early Career Development Program
- FRG Focused Research Group
- RUI Research at Undergraduate Institutions
A number of proposals were jointly funded with other programs within
the Division of Mathematical Sciences, and some with programs in other
divisions of the National Science Foundation. This awards list includes
those for which Probability was the primary funding program. The
program also provided some secondary support to other investigators
who were primary to other programs when a meritable case could be made
for overlapping mathematical interests. Such awards are also listed here.
The research awards are listed first, alphabetized by state and then
by institution name within each state. At the end of the list are awards
made for conferences and related activities.
Auburn University
Ming
Liao [Standard Award in FY97] Dynamical Theory of Stochastic Flows
University of Arizona
Jan
Wehr [Standard Award in FY97] Probabilistic Problems Arising in
Disordered Systems, Wave Propagation and Astronomy
Stanford University
Amir
Dembo [FY00] Quenched Tails and Almost Sure Limit Laws
Bradley
Efron and Persi Diaconis [FY00] Statistical Theory and Methodology
[Secondary with Statistics]
Samuel
Karlin and Amir Dembo [FY97] Probability and Statistics and Related
Biomolecular Sequence Analysis
University of California, Berkeley
David
Aldous [FY99] Topics in Discrete Probability and Stochastic Processes
Steven
Evans [FY00] Measure-valued and Partition-valued Processes and
Random Matrices
Michael
Klass [FY 99] Refined Approximation of Tail Probabilities, Expectation
and Exponential Bounds for Partial Sums and Self-Normalized Martingales
Yuval
Peres [Standard Award in FY 98] Random Processes on Graphs and
Planar Brownian Motion
James
Pitman [FY00] Brownian Motion and Models of Fragmentation and Coalescence
Fraydoun
Rezakhanlou [FY00] Homogenizations Continuum Limits and Kinetic
Limits for Stochastic Models
University of California, Davis
Peter
Chesson [Standard Award in FY00] Theory for Community Dynamics
in Spatially and Temporally Variable Environments [Secondary
with Ecology]
Janko
Gravner [Standard Award in FY97] Cellular Automata and Percolation
Models of Growth and Competition
University of California, Los Angeles
Lincoln
Chayes [Standard Award in FY99] Interacting Graphical Models and
Related Topics in Statistical Mechanics
Alexander
Holroyd [Standard Award in FY00] Extensions of Percolation
Thomas
Liggett [FY00] Interacting Particle Systems
Thomas
Mountford [FY00] Interacting Particle Systems and the Brownian
Sheet
Roberto
Schonmann [FY00] Studies in Interacting Particle Systems and Statistical
Mechanics
University of California, San Diego
Bruce
Driver [Standard Award in FY99] Loop and Path Space Analysis [with
Geometric Analysis]
Yosef
Rinott [FY98, with V. Rotar, Russia] Limit Theorems for Various
Dependence Structures with Applications to Statistics and Particle Systems
[with International Programs]
Ruth
Williams [Standard Award in FY00] Stochastic Networks: Control
and Performance [with Networking Research and Operations Research]
University of Southern California
Kenneth
Alexander [FY98] Probability Models from Statistical Mechanics
Boris
Rozovskii [Standard Award in FY98] Stochastic Partial Differential
Equations with Applications to Nonlinear Filtering [with International
Programs]
Colorado State University
Peter
Brockwell and Richard Davis [FY99] Applied Probability and Time
Series Modelling [with Statistics]
University of Colorado at Boulder
Sergei
Kuznetsov [Standard Award in FY99, with E. Dynkin at Cornell U] Stochastic
Processes and Semilinear Partial Differential Equations
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Yu
Zhang [RUI; Standard Award in FY00] Percolative Models
University of Connecticut
Richard
Bass [FY00] Diffusions and Their Applications
Evarist
Giné [FY00] Limit Theorems in Probability Theory
Xue-Mei
Li [Standard Award in FY00] Stochastic Analysis on Manifolds
[with Geometric Analysis]
University of Delaware
Wenbo
Li [Standard Award in FY99] Small Ball Probabilities and Their
Applications
David
Mason [Standard Award in FY98] Selected Large Sample Problems in
Self-Normalized Sums, Generalized Extremes, and Weighted Approximations
David
Mason and Wenbo Li [Standard Award in FY97] U.S.-France Cooperative
Research: Random Fractals, Multivariate Wiener Processes and Empirical
Processes and Applications [Secondary with International Programs]
University of North Florida
Denis
Bell [RUI; Standard Award in FY97, with S. Mohammed, Southern Illinois
University] Degenerate Stochastic Systems and Related Problems in Analysis
Georgia Institute of Technology
Christian
Houdre [FY98] Questions in Probability Related to Isoperimetry
and Random Fourier Series
Theodore
Hill [Standard Award in FY99] Several Questions in Probability
Theory
Prasad
Tetali [Standard Award in FY98] Uniqueness of Gibbs Measures and
Rapidly Mixing Dynamics [with Theory of Computing]
University of Idaho
Paul
Joyce and Steve Krone [Standard Award in FY00] Stochastic Models
in Population Genetics and Ecology [with Population Biology]
Northwestern University
Elton
Pei Hsu [Standard Award in FY97] Probabilistic Methods in Geometry
and Analysis [with Geometric Analysis]
Southern Illinois University
Salah
Mohammed [Standard Award in FY97, with D. Bell, U of N Florida] Degenerate
Stochastic Systems and Related Problems in Analysis
University of Chicago
Steven
Lalley [FY00] Research in Stochastic Processes and Nonlinear Filtering
University of Illinois
Renming
Song [Standard Award in FY98] Fine Properties of Levy Processes
Richard
Sowers [Standard Award in FY00] Stochastic Averaging: Geometry
and Stratified Spaces
Indiana University
Rabindra
Bhattacharya [FRG; Standard Award in FY00, with E. Waymire, Oregon
State University] Stochastic and Multiscale Structure Associated with
the Navier Stokes Equations
Russell
Lyons [Standard Award in FY98] Spanning Trees, Matroids and Group-Invariant
Processes
Purdue University
Rodrigo
Banuelos [FY00] In Search of Sharp Inequalities [with Analysis]
Thomas
Sellke and Steven Lalley [Standard Award in FY99] Research in Stochastic
Processes and Nonlinear Filtering
Philip
Protter and Jin Ma [FY99] Stochastic Differential Equations and
Related Topics
Philip
Protter [Standard Award in FY98] U.S.-France (INRIA) Research Workshops:
Approximation and Simulation of Stochastic Processes [Secondary with
International Programs]
Iowa State University
Timo
Seppalainen [Standard Award in FY98] Limits and Deviations for
Interacting Random Systems
Sunder
Sethuraman [Standard Award in FY00] Second-Order Investigations
in Particle and Trapping Systems
University of Kansas
Tyrone
Duncan and Bozenna Pasik-Duncan [FY99] Stochastic Adaptive Control
and Related Topics [Secondary with Applied Math]
Johns Hopkins University
James
Fill [FY98] Probability and Combinatorial Structures [with
Theory of Computing]
University of Maryland
Mark
Freidlin [FY98] Asymptotic Problems for Stochastic Processes &
PDE's [with Applied Math]
Boston University
Murad
Taqqu [FY98, with Walt Willinger, AT&T] Long-Range Dependence
and Heavy Tails in Communication Networks [Secondary with Networking
Research]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel
Stroock and Sergey V. Lototsky [Standard Award in FY99] Boundary
Value Problems for Stochastic Parabolic Equations
University of Massachusetts
Richard
Ellis [FY97] Research in Large Deviations and Applications to Queueing
Networks
Wayne State University
Rafail
Khasminskii, G. Yin and Pao Liu Chow [Standard Award in FY99] Cooperative
Research in Statistical Estimation and Asymptotic Analysis
University of Minnesota
Maury
Bramson [FY99] Asymptotic Behavior of Queueing Networks and Interacting
Particle Systems
Nicolai
Krylov [FY99] Diffusion Processes and Partial Differential Equations
Claudia
Neuhauser [FY00] Stochastic Processes in Ecology and Population
Genetics [With Ecology and Population Biology]
Claudia
Neuhauser, Donald Alstad, Peter Graham, Georgiana May, and Ruth Shaw
[BIO; Standard Award in FY00] Biocomplexity - Evolution and Ecology
of Perturbed Interacitons: Modeling Disequilibria in Time and Space
William
Sudderth [FY97] Topics in Abstract Gambling Theory, Stochastic
Games, and Predictive Inference
Richard
Tweedie [FY98] Markov and Related Models, with Application of MCMC
and Networks [with Operations Research]
University of Missouri
Mark
Rudelson [Standard Award in FY00] Probabilistic Approach in Geometric
Functional Analysis [Secondary with Analysis]
University of Nevada
Stephen
W. Wheatcraft and Mark M. Meerschaert [Standard Award in FY00] Investigation
of Fractional-Order, Non-Gaussian Solute Transport [Secondary with
Hydrology]
Princeton University
Michael
Aizenman [FY99] Critical Phenomena and Stochastic Geometry
[Secondary with Theoretical Physics]
Rene
Carmona [FY98] Surface Motions in Random Media [Secondary with
Applied Math]
Yakov
Sinai [FY97] Ergodic Phenomena in Differential Dynamics [Secondary
with Analysis]
City University of New York
C.
Douglas Howard [Standard Award in FY98] Studies in First-Passage
Percolation and Random Walk with Scenery
Michael
Marcus and Jay Rosen [FY98] Stochastic Processes
Columbia University
Victor
de la Peña [FY99] Processes With Dependent Increments: Boundary
Crossing, Self-Normalization and Limit Theorems
Ioannis
Karatzas and Jaksa Cvitanic [FY98] Stochastic Analysis and Modeling
in Financial Mathematics [Secondary with Applied Math]
Cornell University
Kenneth
Brown [Standard Award in FY00] Topology, Algebra and Markov Chains
[Secondary with Topology]
Richard
Durrett [FY99] Problems in Probability Motivated by Questions in
Ecology [with Population Biology]
Eugene
Dynkin [FY99, with S. Kuznetsov, U of Colorado] Stochastic Processes
and Semilinear Partial Differential Equations
Harry
Kesten [FY99] Some Problems in Probability Theory: Random Walks
and Percolation
Michael
Nussbaum [FY00] Asymptotic Equivalence of Statistical Experiments
[Secondary with Statistics]
Sidney
Resnick and Gennady Samorodnitsky [FY00] Long Range Dependence,
Heavy Tails and Communication Networks [with Networking Research and
Operations Research]
Laurent
Saloff-Coste [FY98] Analysis and Geometry of Certain Markov Chains
and Processes [with Geometric Analysis]
New York University
Charles
Newman [Standard Award in FY98] Topics in Percolation and Particle
Models [with Applied Math]
Srinivasa
Varadhan [FY98] Markov Processes
Horng-Tzer
Yau [FY00] Stochastic and Quantum Dynamics of Large Systems
[with Analysis, Applied Math, and Theoretical Physics]
Rochester University
Michael
Cranston [Standard Award in FY99] Some Problems in Stochastic Flows
and Couplings of Diffusions
Syracuse University
J. Theodore
Cox [Standard Award in FY99] Stochastic Spatial Processes
Duke University
Gregory
Lawler [FY99] Studies in Brownian Motion and Random Walk
North Carolina State University
Jack
Silverstein [FY97] Spectral Behavior of Two Classes of Large Dimensional
Random Matrices [with Signal Processing]
Case Western Reserve University
Peter
Kotelenez [FY97] Particles, Stochastic Partial Differential Equations,
Random Fields
Ohio State University
Robin
Pemantle [FY98] Random Discrete Structures
Boris
Pittel [Standard Award in FY98] Random Combinatorial Structures
and Algorithms [with Algebra and Number Theory]
Michel
Talagrand [Standard Award in FY00] Spin Glasses: A New Direction
for Probability Theory
Oregon State University
Edward
Waymire [FY98] Multi-Scaling Theory and Methods for Random Fields
[with Hydrology]
Edward
Waymire, Mina Ossiander, Enrique Thomann, and Ronald Guenther [FRG;
Standard Award in FY00, with R. Bhattacharya, Indiana University] Stochastic
and Multiscale Structure Associated with the Navier Stokes Equations
[with Applied Math]
University of Oregon at Eugene
Qi-Man
Shao [Standard Award in FY98] Self-Normalized Limit Theorems and
Small Ball Probabilities
Carnegie-Mellon University
Agoston
Pizstora [FY00] Geometric Aspects of Random Spatial Systems
Steven
Shreve [FY98] Stochastic Control Models in Finance [Secondary
with Applied Math]
Pennsylvania State University, Beaver Campus
Chris
Wu [RUI; Standard Award in FY98] Mathematical Problems in Percolation
and Ising Models
Brown University
Paul
Dupuis [FY00] Research on Stochastic Processes and Optimization
[with Applied Math]
University of Tennessee
Jan
Rosinski [FY97] Infinitely Divisible Processes and Related Topics
University of Utah
Davar
Khoshnevisan and Yimin Xiao [FY98] Random Fields and Potential
Theory
University of Virginia
Almut
Burchard [Standard Award in FY99] Geometry of Random Curves [Secondary
with Geometric Analysis]
University of Washington
Krzysztof
Burdzy and Zhen-Qing Chen [FY00] Diffusion Processes and Stochastic
Analysis
University of Wisconsin
David
Griffeath [Standard Award in FY99] Theory and Applications of Random
Cellular Automata and Related Models [with Computational Math]
James
Kuelbs [Standard Award in FY00] Probability Measures on Vector
Spaces: Theory and Applications
Thomas
Kurtz [FY99] Complex Stochastic Systems
James
Propp [FY99] Research on Tilings [with Algebra and Number Theory]
Conferences and Related Activities
Seminar
on Stochastic Processes 2000 University of Utah, March 16-18, 2000
- PI: Davar Khoshnevisan
Symposium on Inference for Stochastic Processes University of Georgia,
May 10-12, 2000 - PI: Robert Taylor and Ishwar Basawa
Workshop
on the Interface of Probability and Number Theory [with Algebra,
Number Theory and Combinatorics] University of Illinois, May 19-20, 2000
- PI: Adolph Hildebrand and Walter V. Philipp
23rd
International Conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Summer 2000 [Secondary
with Geophysics] Villefranche sur Mer, France, June 18-23, 2000 - PI:
Marc Spiegelman
Conference
on Stochastic Analysis and Harmonic Analysis [with Analysis] Northwestern
University, June 26-30, 2000 - PI: Mark Pinsky, Gang Wang, and Elton Pei
Hsu
Committee
on Hydrologic Science [with Hydrology] Workshops scheduled throughout
the year - PI: Stephen Parker
Summer
Internships in Probability and Stochastic Processes [with Infrastructure]
University of Wisconsin, summers 1998-2000 - PI: Thomas Kurtz
Midwest
Probability Colloquium Northwestern University, October 20-21,
2000 - PI: Mark Pinsky
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