CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Steven Neil Evans

Address: Department of Statistics, University of California, 367 Evans Hall #3860, Berkeley, CA 94720-3860

ph: (510) 642-2777 fax: (510) 642-7892 e-mail: evans@stat.Berkeley.EDU URL: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/evans

Date and place of birth: August 12, 1960 Orange, Australia

Nationality: Australian and U.S. dual citizenship

Tertiary Education:

1979-1982 Bachelor of Science (Honours I), University of Sydney.

1983-1986 Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge,supervisor M.T. Barlow, graduated May 2, 1987.

Fellowships, Scholarships and Prizes:

 

1979-1981 Gowrie Trust Fund Scholarship

1980 & 1981 John Irvine Hunter Scholarship

1983 University Medal in Mathematical Statistics

1983-1986 Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan Scholarship

1983-1986 Research Scholarship and Studentship, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

1990 Rollo Davidson Prize

1991 Presidential Young Investigator Award

1993 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship

1997 G. de B. Robinson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society

1998 Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

1998 Dobson Fellow, U.C. Berkeley

2002 Miller Research Professor, U.C. Berkeley

2002 Medallion Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

2005 Presidential Chair Teaching Fellow, U.C. Berkeley

Employment and Teaching Experience

 

1979-1982 Full-time Bursar, Commonwealth Banking Corporation

1983-1987 Research Graduate, Commonwealth Banking Corporation of Australia. Promoted 1987, Manager Research and Analysis.

1987-1991 Assistant Professor, Statistics, University of California, Berkeley.

1987-1989 Whyburn Research Instructor, Mathematics, University of Virginia.

1991-1995 Associate Professor with tenure, Statistics, University of California, Berkeley.

1995-present Professor, Statistics, University of California, Berkeley.

1999-present Professor, Mathematics (joint appointment), University of California, Berkeley.

2005-present Member, Graduate Group in Computational and Genomic Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

Selected Invited Lectures

 

1988 Seminar on Stochastic Processes (Gainesville, Florida), plenary speaker

1989 Southern Californian Probability Meeting, U.C. Irvine (Irvine, California)

1992 Twenty First Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Bernoulli Society (North York, Canada), plenary speaker

Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (Montreal, Canada) Workshop - "Topics in probability and Lie groups: boundary theory" (course of 5 talks).

Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (Montreal, Canada) Workshop - "Measure-valued processes, stochastic partial differential equations and interacting systems."

Fourteenth Midwest Probability Colloquium, Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)

1993 Joint Statistical Meeting (ASA, Biometric Society, IMS), (San Francisco, California)

First World Congress on Branching Processes (unable to attend due to health)

1994 International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Edinburgh, U.K.) "Stochastic Partial Differential Equations"

Oberwolfach Mathematics Institute "Probability and Statistics" (unable to attend due to health)

Oberwolfach Mathematics Institute "Probability Theory on Groups and Related Structures"

1996 World Congress of the Bernoulli Society, (Vienna, Austria)

1997 International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Edinburgh) "Instructional Meeting on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations"

1999 Fields Institute (Toronto, Canada) Workshop - "Interactive Measure-Valued Processes"

Southern California Probability Meeting, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California)

2000 Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Bristol, U.K.) - Microsoft Workshop at BRIMS - "Random Matrices",

AMS Western Section Meeting, (San Francisco, California), plenary speaker

2001 MSRI (Berkeley, California) Summer School - "Modern Signal Processing"

Erwin Schroedinger Institute (Vienna, Austria) Workshop - "Random Walks and Geometry"

Twenty Seventh Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Bernoulli Society (Cambridge U.K.), plenary speaker

2002 New Zealand Mathematics Research Institute, Eighth Summer Workshop, (Napier, New Zealand)

Medallion Lecturer, IMS Annual Meeting, (Banff, Canada)

2003 Oberwolfach Mathematics Institute "Branching Processes"

Warwick Mathematics Institute, "Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Related Topics" (2 talks)

Banff International Research Station, workshop on stochastic differential equations in honour of John Walsh

2004 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (Cambridge U.K), "Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages"

Frankfurt University, "Workshop on Random Discrete Structures"

German Mathematical Society annual meeting (Heidelberg, Germany)

2005 Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences, "Fourth Symposium on Levy Processes"

Weierstrass Insitute (Berlin), "Workshop on Random Spatial Models from Physics and Biology"

Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard, "Mathematical Modeling and Language Diversification Workshop"

St. Flour (France) Probability Summer School (10 talks)

Center for Interdisciplinary Research (Bielefeld, Germany), "Microscopic Stochastic Dynamics in Biology and Chemistry"

Oberwolfach Mathematics Institute "Mathematical Population Genetics"

2006 Princeton, New Jersey, Seminar on Stochastic Processes, plenary speaker

International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Edinburgh, U.K)., “Workshop on Mathematical Population Genetics”

Banff International Research Station, “Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Linguistic Phylogeny”

Cornell University (Ithaca, New York), 2nd Cornell Probability summer school

University of Washington (Seattle, Washington), “International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and its Applications”

50th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society (Sydney, Australia), plenary speaker

2007 Australian National University Mathematical Sciences Institute (Canberra, Australia), Visiting Fellow, series of talks

Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, Stanford University (Palo Alto, California), “Workshop on Alternative Approaches to Language Classification

2008 RWTH, (Aachen, Germany), 8th German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics, plenary speaker

Erwin Schroedinger Institute (Vienna, Austria), 15th Anniversary Celebrations, plenary speaker

Research Support

 

1988 - 1989 NSF grant at University of Virginia

1990 - 1991 NSF grant at University of California

1991 - 1997 Presidential Young Investigator Award

1993 - 1995 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship

1994 - 1997 NSERC Canada Collaborative Projects Grant, "Stochastic Partial Differential Equations"

1997 - 2000 NSF grant at University of California

1997 NSA grant at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley

1999 NSF grant jointly at MSRI, Berkeley and Fields Institute, Toronto

2000-2003 NSF grant at University of California

2004-2008 NSF grant at University of California

2006-2007 Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics (U.C. Berkeley) grant

2007-2008 Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics (U.C. Berkeley) grant

Professional Service

 

1993 - 2000 Associate Editor Stochastic Processes and their Applications

1994 - 2000 Associate Editor Annals of Probability

1997 - 1998 Co-chair, special year on Stochastic Analysis, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley

1998 - Co-organizer, Seminar on Stochastic Processes

2001 – 2003 Associate Editor Probability Theory and Related Fields

2003 - Core Editor, Probability Surveys