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Ruth J. Williams

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Ruth J. Williams
Born
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
Stanford University
Known forProbability theory
Stochastic process
AwardsJohn von Neumann Theory Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Diego
ThesisBrownian motion in a wedge with oblique reflection at the boundary (1983)
Doctoral advisorChung Kai-lai

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

  1. ^ Ruth Williams, UCSD, retrieved 2014-12-24.
  2. ^ a b Cashin, Kasey (December 11, 2018), "Ruth Williams receives Honorary Doctorate", School of Mathematics and Statistics, retrieved 2019-11-23
  3. ^ "Citation in support of Ruth Williams' nomination for an Honorary Doctorate" (PDF), University of Melbourne, December 11, 2018, retrieved 2019-11-23
  4. ^ Ruth Jeannette Williams at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Williams, Ruth Jeannette (1983), Brownian motion in a wedge with oblique reflection at the boundary /, Stanford University
  6. ^ Faculty profile, UCSD, retrieved 2014-12-24.
  7. ^ SIAM Announces Class of 2020 Fellows, SIAM, March 31, 2020, retrieved 2020-06-12
  8. ^ Williams, Ruth J. (1998), "Reflecting diffusions and queueing networks", Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III, pp. 321–330
  9. ^ "AMS Committees", American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2023-03-27
  10. ^ "Past Fellows", sloan.org, retrieved 2019-11-23
  11. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Ruth J. Williams, retrieved 2019-11-23
  12. ^ a b c d e "Ruth Williams | ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers", acems.org.au, retrieved 2019-11-23
  13. ^ "Reiman, Williams share von Neumann Prize", INFORMS News, 43 (6), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, December 2016