Bálint Tóth#
| Membership Number: | 4252 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | https://sites.google.com/view/balint-toth-math/home |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013-present: Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (research professor)
- 2012-2025: University of Bristol, School of Mathematics; Professor - Chair of Probability
- 1998-2017: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Institute of Mathematics; Professor
- 1981-1998: Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Researcher (from 1991 senior researcher)
- 1998-2012: Head of Department of Stochastics, TU Budapest
- 2005-2009: Director of Institute of Mathematics, TU Budapest
- 2009-2012: Head of Garduate School of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Budapest
Fields of Scholarship
- Stochastic processes
- Random walks, interacting particle systems
- Probability theory
- Statistical physics (classical and quantum)
- Randomness in space and time
- Fluctuations, scaling limits
Honours and Awards
- 2022 IMS Medallion Lecture, delivered at the SPA Conference of the Bernoulli Society (Wuhan)
- 2022 Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2018 Invited speaker at the Intrernational Congress of Methematicians (2018, Rio de Janeiro)
- 2016 member of Academia Europaea
- 2014 Plenary speaker at the SPA Conference of the Bernoulli Society (Buenos Aires)
- 2010 Szele Tibor Memorial Medal [awarded by the János Bolyai Mathematical Society (= Hungarian Math. Soc.)]
- 2009 Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Republic DECLINED AND RETURNED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE HUNGARIAN REPUBLIC IN 2016 FOR REASONS OF CONSCIENCE
- 2005 Plenary speaker at the SPA Conference of the Bernoulli Society (Santa Barbara CA)
- 2003 Academy Prize [awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences]
- 1994 Paul Erdős Prize awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1987 Young Researcher’s Prize awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
