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Ed Perkins
Canadian mathematician (born 1953) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Edwin Arend Perkins (born 1953)[1] is a Canadian mathematician specializing in probability theory, including the analysis of Brownian motion and the applications to probability of non-standard analysis.[2] He is a professor emeritus of mathematics and statistics at the University of British Columbia.[3]
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Education and career
Perkins received a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1975 from the University of Toronto.[4] 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'.[5]
He came to the University of British Columbia as a postdoctoral researcher in 1979, and became an assistant professor there in 1982. He was promoted to associate professor in 1985 and full professor in 1989.[4] He was given a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Probability in 2001.[6]
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Recognition
Perkins was elected to the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) in 1988[7] and to the Royal Society (FRS) in 2007.[2]
He was the 1983 recipient of the Rollo Davidson Prize,[8] the 2002 recipient of the Jeffery–Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society[2] and (with John McKay) one of two recipients of the 2003 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize.[7]
In 2019 the University of Illinois gave him their Mathematics Alumni Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement.[9]
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