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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Stochastics, Probability Theory,Mathematical and Applied Statistics |
| Keywords | Verzweigungsprozesse, randomisierte Algorithmen, zufällige Bäume |
Current contact address
| Country | Canada |
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| City | Montreal |
| Institution | McGill University |
| Institute | School of Computer Science |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Ludger Rüschendorf | Abteilung für Mathematische Stochastik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg |
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| Prof. Dr. Ralph Neininger | Fachbereich für Stochastik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main |
| Prof. Dr. Uwe Rösler | Mathematisches Seminar, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/05/2004 |
Programme(s)
| 2003 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Devroye receives the Humboldt Award for his fundamental contributions to the theory of mathematical statistics and theoretical computer science. He is responsible for major progress in the theory of nonparametric estimation and its application to pattern recognition. His fundamental ideas connecting the theory of branching processes with the analysis of algorithms lead to an important and very active research area between mathematics and computer science. The cooperation with the universities in Frankfurt, Freiburg and Kiel is focussed on algorithms and random trees. |