John Kingman#
| Email: | John.Kingman 'at' bristol.ac.uk |
| Membership Number: | 1692 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Username: | jkingman |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006- : Emeritus Professor of Math. Sci., Univ. Cambridge
- 2001-06: Director, Isaac Newton Inst. for Mathematical Sciences
- 2000-03: Chairman, UK Statistics Commission
- 1985-2001: Vice-Chancellor, Univ. Bristol
- 1981-85: Chairman, Science & Engineering Research Council
- 1969-85: Professor of Maths, Univ. Oxford
- 1966-69: Professor of Maths & Statistics, Univ. Sussex
- 1965-66: Reader in Maths & Statistics, Univ. Sussex
- 1962-65: Asst Lecturer & Lecturer, Univ. Cambridge,
- 1969: Sc.D. Mathematics, Univ. Cambridge,
Fields of Scholarship
- queueing theory
- Markov processes
- subadditive random processes
- regenerative phenomena
- mathematical population genetics
Honours and Awards
- FRS 1971 (Royal Medal, 1983)
- Knight Bachelor, 1985
- Officier, Palmes Academiques, 1989
- President, European Math. Soc. 2003-06
- Foreign Associate, US NAS, 2007
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