Jon became a
student in the
Department of Statistics, U.C. Berkeley in 1991 after completing a BS
at M.I.T.
in 1986. He received his PhD in 1995
under the direction of Steve Evans (me) with a thesis entitled
"Capacity of
Brownian Trace and Level Sets". He was
awarded the Michel and Line Loeve Fellowship to support his outstanding
graduate research in probability.
As well as working
with me,
Jon also collaborated with Yuval Peres and Robin Pemantle on the paper
"The
trace of spatial Brownian motion is capacity-equivalent to the unit
square"
that appeared in Probability Theory
and Related Fields 106
(1996), 379-399.
Following his PhD,
Jon took
up a post-doc at the
I recall the many
happy times
I spent with Jon before his illness took hold: watching him do his
karate
exercises in the sun outside Evans Hall, listening to him playing his
African
drums, or simply hanging out with him in cafes enjoying his quiet sense
of humour. I
particularly
remember sitting on the 10th floor balcony and looking across the Bay
to the
lights of