Frank the Dutchman
Frank den Hollander (born December 1, 1956 ) is a Dutch mathematician.
Frank den Hollander studied theoretical physics at the University of Leiden from 1975 with his diploma in 1980 and received his doctorate there in 1985 with Pieter Kasteleyn (random walks on random lattices). As a post-doctoral student he was with Michael Keane at the TU Delft, from 1989 as a scholarship holder of the Dutch Academy of Sciences. In 1991 he became assistant professor at Utrecht University and in 1994 professor of probability and statistics at Radboud University Nijmegen . From 2000 he was professor at the TU Eindhoven and scientific director of EURANDOM (their center for stochastics) and in 2005 professor in Leiden.
He deals with probability theory (e.g. theory of large deviations, methods of potential theory, systems of interacting particles), statistical physics (including phase transitions with the help of variation methods), ergodic theory, population genetics and complex networks.
In 1998 he was visiting professor at the Fields Institute in Toronto. In 2005 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. In 2004 he was an invited speaker at the European Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm and in 2016 he gave the Medaillon Lecture at the World Congress of Probability and Statistics in Toronto. In 2003 he gave the Lévy Lecture of the Bernoulli Society in Rio de Janeiro. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics . In 2016 he became a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion.
Fonts
- Large Deviations, Fields Institute Monographs 14, AMS 2000, reprinted 2008
- Random Polymers, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1974, Springer 2009
- with Anton Bovier : Metastability, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 351, Springer 2015
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| SURNAME | Hollander, Frank den |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st December 1956 |