Evarist Giné-Masdéu (or Evarist Giné)
| Birth date and place: | 7/31/44, Falset, Catalonia. |
| Nationality: | Catalan. |
| Citizenship: | U.S. |
Address
Department of Mathematics, U-9
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
Phone: 1-860-486 3929; Fax: 1-860-486 4238; e-mail: gine@math.uconn.edu
| Education: | Llicenciat, U. Barcelona, 1967. |
| Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973. |
Recent Employment
1990- Professor, University of Connecticut. 1988-1990 Professor, CUNY (Staten Island and Graduate Center). 1983-1990 Professor, Texas A & M University.
Invited addresses and short visits
Several international conferences, among them IMS, CNRS, Oberwolfach (more than 10 times), Vilnius (2); Bernoulli Society, Forun Lectures at the 20th European Meeting of Statisticians, Bath 1993; Saint-Flour, Ecole d'Eté de Probabilités, 1996; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Center for the Math. Sci. Summer Internship Program 1999; Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, June 2001 (Odyssée de la Statistique). IMS Medallion Lecture at IMS/BS 2004 meeting in Barcelona. Probability in Banach Spaces and High Dimensional Probability Conferences (every 2 or 3 years since 1975). Keynote speaker, 19th New England Statistics Symposium, Storrs, CT. Several Special Sessions and departmental Colloquia.
Visits of at least one month at: Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg; U. Paris-Sud (Orsay); M.S.R.I. at Berkeley; Universität Bielefeld; Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, and University of Vienna.
Miscelanea
Premio (Prize) Nacional de Matemáticas, 1978, CONICIT, Venezuela. Premi Martí d'Ardenya from the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, 1978; 1998 UConn Alumni Excellence in Research Award.
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics since 1984, Elected member of the International Statistical Institute, Dec. 1990, and Corresponding Member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.
Member of the Committee on Fellows of the Inst. Math. Statist. 1988-1991.
Associate Editor for Annals of Probability (1994-2000), J. Theoretical Probability, Electronic Journal of Probability, Electronic Communications in Probability, Publicacions Matemàtiques, TEST, Stochastic Processes and their Applications (2000-2002), and Bernoulli.
Organizer of a Special Session on Empirical Processes for the 1st World Congress of the Bernoulli Society, September 1986, Tashkent; Program Chair 2nd IMS Int. Symp. on Probability, Bloomington, Indiana, 1994; Program Chair Joint 5th World Congress Bernoulli Soc./IMS Annual Meeting, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2000; co-organizer (with D. Mason and J. Wellner) of the Second International Conference on High Dimensional Probability, U. Washington, Seattle, August 1-6, 1999, and of the Fourth, with V. Koltchinskii, W. Li and J. Zinn, Santa Fe, June 19-24, 2005; program organizer (with Ch. Houdré and David Nualart) for the Euroconference Stochastic Inequalities and their Applications, CRM, Barcelona, June 17-21, 2002.
PhD students: Antoni Sintes, Juan Romo, Miguel Arcones, Zhiqiang Chen, Dragan Radulovic, Hailin Sang.
National Panels: NSF Math Postdoctoral Fellows (3 years), NSA Mathematical Sciences (1 year), NSF (2 years). In Catalonia: Distinció a la Recerca (3 years) and Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (3 years).
Loève Prize Committee (3 years).