American mathematician
Ruth Jeannette Williams is an Australian-born American mathematician at the University of California, San Diego where she holds the Charles Lee Powell Chair as a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. Her research concerns probability theory and stochastic processes .[ 1]
Early life and education
Williams was born in Australia and moved to the United States in 1978.[ 2]
Williams graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Sciences, with honors, in 1976 and a Master of Science in mathematics in 1978.[ 3] Williams went on to earn her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1983, under the supervision of Chung Kai-lai .[ 4] [ 5]
Recognition
Williams was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics from 2011 to 2012.
Williams is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Mathematical Society , the Institute of Mathematical Statistics , the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences ,[ 6] and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics .[ 7] In 1998 she was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[ 8] Williams was an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Council member at large.[ 9]
Her other awards and honors include:
References
^ Ruth Williams , UCSD, retrieved 2014-12-24.
^ a b Cashin, Kasey (December 11, 2018), "Ruth Williams receives Honorary Doctorate" , School of Mathematics and Statistics , retrieved 2019-11-23
^ "Citation in support of Ruth Williams' nomination for an Honorary Doctorate" (PDF) , University of Melbourne , December 11, 2018, retrieved 2019-11-23
^ Ruth Jeannette Williams at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ Williams, Ruth Jeannette (1983), Brownian motion in a wedge with oblique reflection at the boundary / , Stanford University
^ Faculty profile , UCSD, retrieved 2014-12-24.
^ SIAM Announces Class of 2020 Fellows , SIAM, March 31, 2020, retrieved 2020-06-12
^ Williams, Ruth J. (1998), "Reflecting diffusions and queueing networks" , Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III , pp. 321–330
^ "AMS Committees" , American Mathematical Society , retrieved 2023-03-27
^ "Past Fellows" , sloan.org , retrieved 2019-11-23
^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Ruth J. Williams , retrieved 2019-11-23
^ a b c d e "Ruth Williams | ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers" , acems.org.au , retrieved 2019-11-23
^ "Reiman, Williams share von Neumann Prize" , INFORMS News , 43 (6), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences , December 2016
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