Steven N. Evans' most recent work has been on a class of stochastic processes that arise in population genetics, the Dawson-Watanabe superprocesses. He also has ongoing interests in probabilistic objects on fractal-like algebraic structures, and in the connection between quantum field theory and self-avoiding random walks. He has also done work on stochastic models in genetics at the molecular level. His last two PhD students worked, respectively, on methods for dating mitochondrial Eve (our most recent common female ancestor) and the pricing of exotic financial instruments. He is a Presidential Young Investigator, a Sloan Fellow, and has received the Rollo Davidson Prize.
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