"Davar Khoshnevisan's On-Line Vita"

Mailing Address

Publications

Education:

Ph. D. (1989). U.C. Berkeley, Statistics.
M. Sc. (1984). The Johns Hopkins Univ., Mathematical Sciences.
B. Sc. (1984). The Johns Hopkins Univ., Mathematical Sciences.

Dissertation:

Level Crossings of the Uniform Empirical Process.
Department of Statistics, U.C. Berkeley.
Supervisor: Professor P. W. Millar.

Positions Held:

(2001-present) Professor. Univ. of Utah.
(2001) Visiting Professor. EPF-Lausanne, Switzerland (April-June).
(2000) Professeur Invité. Université de Paris, France (October).
(1998) Visiting Member. MSRI., U.C. Berkeley. (Two weeks)
(1996-2001) Associate Professor. Univ. of Utah.
(1993-1996) Assistant Professor. Univ. of Utah.
(1993) Honorary Fellow. Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison.
(1990-1993) Acting Assistant Professor. Univ. of Washington.
(1992) Honorary Fellow. Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison.
(1989-1990) Instructor. MIT.

Awards:

(1998) The Rollo Davidson Prize, Univ. of Cambridge.

Editorial Service:

(May 2007-present) Journal of Theoretical Probability,
Associate editor.
(June 2002-present) Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics,
Probability editor.
(Jan 2002-present) Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society,
Associate editor.
(March 1999-2002) The Electronic Journal/Communications of/in Probability,
Managing editor.

Service:

(October 2008) Co-organizer of the special session on "Gaussian Analysis & Stochastic Partial Differential Equations," AMS Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Huntsville, Alabama (co-organizer: Dongsheng Wu)
(August 2007) Seminar on Stochastic Processes '07: Organizer of the special session on the the interface of stochastic partial differential equations and Gaussian analysis (co-organizer: Yimin Xiao)
(October 2006) Organizer of the special session on "The Interface of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Gaussian analysis," AMS Western Sectional Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT (co-organizer: Eulalia Nualart)
(May 2006) Organizer of a VIGRE-funded mini-course on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, Univ. of Utah (co-organizer: Firas Rassoul-Agha)
(December 2004) Member of the NSF Panel for the Probability Section.
(2003-2004) Chair of the committee for selection of Special Invited Lectures, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
(October 2002) Organizer of the special session on "Time Series, Heavy Tails, and Applications."
AMS Western Sectional Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT (co-chair: Piotr Kokoszka)
(July-August 2002) Group leader for the summer REU on "Random walks and simulation"
Further details can be found in http://www.math.utah.edu/~davar/REU-2002/REU.html
(2002-2003) Member of the committee for selection of Special Invited Lectures, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
(May 2002) Panel member for "The Role of Probability in Scientific and Mathematical Research:
A Workshop on Current and Emerging Research Opportunities," National Science Foundation
(December 2001) Member of the NSF Panel for Probability Grants Section.
(2001-2002) Member of the committee for selection of Special Invited Lectures, Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
(June 2001) Joint IMS/ENAR Conference, Vancouver, B.C.
Chair of the session "Brownian Sheet and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations;"
(co-chair: John B. Walsh).
(March 2001) "Seminar on Stochastic Processes," Member of the organizational committee.
(March 2000) "Seminar on Stochastic Processes," Host, and member of the organizational committee.
(September 1999) Organizer of the special session on "Ergodic theory of stochastic processes,"
AMS Western Sectional Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT (co-chair: Stewart N. Ethier).

Grants:

(2004-2007) NSF: New Perspectives on Random Fields (co-PI: Y. Xiao)
(2001-2004) NSF: Analytic and Geometric Properties of Random Fields (co-PI: Y. Xiao)
(2000) NSF: and Univ. of Utah: Seminar on Stochastic Processes, 2000
(1998-2001) NSF: Brownian Sheet and Related Topics (co-PI: Y. Xiao)
(1998-2002) NATO: Brownian Sheet and Related Topics (co-PI: Z. Shi)
(1997) NSF: Travel Grant for Bernoulli Society Conference, Viña del Mar, Chile
(1995-1997) NSF: jointly with a Young Investigator Award from NSF
(1993) NSF: Summer Internship, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison.
(1992) NSF: Summer Internship, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison.
(1990) NSF: Travel Grant for Bernoulli Society Conference, Nahariya, Israel.
(1990) NSF: Travel Grant (PI: R. F. Bass and K. Burdzy).
(1989) NSF: Graduate Student Support; (PI: P. W. Millar).

Presentations (2006+ only; Complete Schedule):

(Jul 2009) 33rd Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, invited session on Lévy Processes

(Apr 2009) Barrett Lectures, University of Tennessee (Principal speakers: R. Bass and O. Zeitouni)

(Mar 2009) Workshop on infinitely-divisible processes, CIMAT, Guanajuato

(Feb 2009) Workshop on Random Fields and Stochastic Geometry, Banff International Station

(Dec 2008) "Small Ball Inequalities in Analysis, Probability, and Irregularities of Distribution," American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, California.

(Sep 2008) "Fractal Geometry and Stochastics," Greifswald, Germany.

(Aug 2008) "Malliavin Calculus and its Applications," CBMS/NSF Regional Research Conference in Mathematical Sciences (David Nualart, principal speaker)

(Jun 2008) "IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability 2008," Hangzhou, China. (Unable to attend due to scheduling conflicts.)

(May 2008) "The Second Int'l Cong. on Stoch. Analysis and Its Applications," Seoul, Korea. (Unable to attend due to scheduling conflict.)

(May 2008) "Second Graduate Student Conference in Probability," University of Wisconsin-Madison.

(Apr 2008) Graduate Colloquium, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

(Mar 2008) Teachers' Circle, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

(Feb 2008) Probability Seminar, University of British Columbia, Canada.

(Feb 2008) Brazilian Summer School for Post-Docs, IMPA, Brazil. (Unable to attend due to health reasons)

(Dec 2007) Probability Seminar, Columbia University, New York.

(Dec 2007) Probability Seminar, City University of New York, New York.

(Nov 2007) Probability Seminar, Stanford University, Palo Alto.

(Oct 2007) Probability Seminar, EPF-Lausanne, Switzerland.

(Sep 2007) Colloquium, New Mexico State University, Las Crucas, New Mexico.

(Aug 2007) "The Fifth International Conference on Lévy Processes: Theory and Applications," Copenhagen, Denmark.

(Aug 2007) "Summer School on Lévy Processes," Copenhagen, Denmark.

(May 2007) "Front Range Probability Day," Boulder, Colorado.

(May 2007) "The Third Erich L. Lehmann Symposium," Rice University.

(May-Jun 2007) SIAM Conference on "Applications of Dynamical Systems,"
Snowbird, Utah. (Unable to attend, due to a scheduling conflict.)

(Feb 2007) Colloquium, Oregon State University, Corvallis.
Sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Math. Consortium.

(Feb 2007) Probability Seminar, University of Oregon.

(Dec 2006) Probability Seminar, Indiana University, Bloomington.

(Nov 2006) Undergraduate Colloquium, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

(Oct 2006) Probability Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

(Aug 2006) "International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and its Applications," Seattle, Washington.

(Jun 2006) "Workshop on Probability with Applications," Taipei, Taiwan.

(May 2006) "VIGRE Minicourse on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations," University of Utah.

(Mar 2006) Colloquium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

(Mar 2006) Probability Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

(Feb 2006) Probability Seminar, Cornell University.

(Jan 2006) Colloquium, University of Wyoming.

Current and Recent Research Students:

Mr. Karim Khader (Ph.D.)
Mr. Shang-Yuan Shiu (Ph.D.)
Mr. Michael Purcell (M.S./Ph.D.)
Mr. Parker Childs (NSF REU)
Ms. Jin Dai (M.Stat.; August 2006)
Ms. Trang Le (May 2006)
Ms. Zsuszanna Horváth (NSF REU; May 2006. Now at Utah for MS in math.)
Mr. Benjamin Richards (NSF REU; May 2006)
Mr. David Seal (NSF REU; honor's thesis; August 2006. Now at Wisconsin for PhD in math.)

Organizational Affiliations:

(2001-present) American Mathematical Society.
(1984-present) Institute of Mathematical Statistics; lifetime member
(1998-2000) Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
(1984-1986) American Mathematical Society.