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Marius Iosifescu
Vice-President of the Romanian Academy
Born: August 12, 1936, Pitesti, Romania
Married, one son
Studies
- June 1954 - Graduated from College
- July 1959 - M.A. (Mathematics), Bucharest University
- July 1963 - Ph.D. (Probability), Bucharest University, Thesis: Chains with complete connections with an arbitrary set of states
- December 1969 - Earned a second doctoral degree equivalent to the title of professor
Career
PhD Supervising
Visiting Professorships
- 1974, 1991, 1996 and 1998 - Université René Descartes (Paris V)
- 1977/78 - Mainz Universität
- 1979/80 - Frankfurt am Main Universität
- 1981/82 - Bonn Universität
- 1991 - Melbourne University
- 1997 - Université de Lille 1
- 1998 and 1999 - Université de Bordeaux 1
Invited Speaker
- at international scientific meetings in Budapest
(1972), Vilnius (1973, 1977, 1981, 1985, 1989), Varna (Bulgaria) (1979 and
1993), Prague (1978,1986), Warsaw (1981, 1990), Bad Honnef (Germany) (1982),
Salonika (1987), Olsztyn (Poland) (1988), Palermo (1988), Uppsala (1990),
Blaubeuren (Germany) (1991), Amsterdam (1993), Paris (1994), Compiègne (1998)
and many others which I was unable to attend.
Visits under the Exchange Agreements of the Romanian Academy
- former URSS (1964, 1970)
- former Chechoslovakia (1965, 1967)
- Poland (1966, 1975, 1976, 1983, 1990)
- Hungary (1972)
- France (1979)
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Austria (1983, 1986)
- Great Britain (1969, 1984)
- West Germany (1985)
- Sweden
(1987, 1992, 1995).
Lectures delivered at numerous Universities around the World:
Moscow (1964), Warsaw (1966, 1976, 1990), Vilnius (1970), Vienna (1971), Oxford
(1972, 1984), Sheffield (1972), Swansea (1972), Paris (V and VI)(1972, 1991,
1992, 1996), Paris (Orsay) (1991), London (1972, 1984), Cambridge (1972,1984),
Braunschweig (1978), Duisburg (1978), Paris (Institut de Statistique) (1979,
1980, 1982), Heidelberg (1978, 1985), Frankfurt am Main (1978, 1981, 1985), Bonn
(1978, 1985), Dü sseldorf (1980), München (1980), Mainz (1978, 1980, 1982,
1985, 1991), Eichstätt (1982), Salonika (1984, 1990), Manchester (1984),
Trondheim (1987), Stockholm (1987, 1992, 1995), Göteborg (1987, 1992, 1995),
Uppsala (1987, 1992, 1995), Linköping (1987, 1992), Florence (1988), Pisa
(1988), Melbourne (1991), Sydney (1991), Canberra (1991), Clermont-Ferrand
(1992), Nancy (1992), Lille (1993, 1996), Le Mans (1993), Delft (1994, 1995,
1998), Bordeaux (1996)
Publications
- 111 research papers and 12 books:
- Teoria jocurilor (Theory of Games), with G.Ciucu & R.
Theodorescu), Tehnical Publishing House, Bucharest, 1965.
- Teoria probabilitatilor si statistica matematica, (Theory of Probabilities
and mathematical Statistics), with Gh. Mihoc & R.Theodorescu), Tehnical
Publishing House, Bucharest, 1966.
- Elemente de teorie a probabilitatilor si aplicatiile ei (Elements of the
Theory of Probabilities and its Applications), with Gh. Mihoc & V.
Urseanu, Scientific Publishing House, Bucharest
- Procese stochastice si aplicatii în biologie si medicina (Stochastic
Processes and Applications in Biology and Medicine), with P.Tautu,
Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 1968
- Random processes and learning, with R. Theodorescu, pp.Grundlehren der
math. Wissenschaften, Band 150, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New-York,
1969.
- Stochastic processes and applications in biology and medicine,
with P. Tautu: I. Theory, 331 pages; II. Models. 337 pages, Biomathematics,
Vols.3&4. Ed Academiei & Springer, Bucharest-Berlin, 1973.
- Lanturi Markov finite si aplicatii (Finite Markov Chains and their
Applications), Tehnical Publishing House, Bucharest, 1977
- Finite Markov processes and their applications, 295 pages, Wiley &
Tehnical Publishing House, Chichester-Bucharest, 1980. (Polish translation:
Skonczone procesy Markova i ich zastosowania, 292 pages, PWN, Warszawa, 1988.
- Dependenta cu legaturi complete si aplicatii (Dependence with complete
connections and its Applications), with S. Grigorescu, 359 pages,
Scientific and Encyclopedic Publishing House, Bucharest, 1982.
- Elemente de modelare stochastica (Elements of Stochastic Modeling),
with S. Grigorescu, Gh. Oprisan & Gh. Popescu, Tehnical Publishing House, Bucharest,
1984
- Mica enciclopedie de statistica (Little Encyclopaedia of Statistics),
with C. Moineagu, V. Trebici & E. Ursianu, 611 pages,
Scientific and Encyclopedic Publishing House, Bucharest, 1985.
- Dependence with complete connections and its
applications, 302 pages, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, Vol.96. Cambridge
Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1990.
Editorial Activities
- Probability Theory and Related Fields (1972-1989)
- Biostatistica (1989-1998)
- Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (1989-1993)
- Journal of Multivariate Analysis (1976-1992)
- Mathematica (Cluj) (since 1992)
- Deputy editor of Revue Roumaine de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (since 1983)
- Co-editor of the Proceedings of the Brasov Conference on Probability Theory (1971, 1974, 1977, 1982) and of the volume Studies in Probabilitty and Related Topics:Studies in Honour of Octav Onicescu on His 90th Birthday (1983)
Affiliations
- Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (since 1969-on the council 1975-1979)
- Biometric Society (since 1968-on the council 1976-1979).
- 1970 - Member of the International Statistical Institute
- 1971 - Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, England
- 1991 - Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy
Prizes and Awards:
- 1965 and 1972 - Prizes of the Romanian Academy for contributions to the theory of dependence with complete connections and theory of random processes when
modeling biological and medical phenomena
- 1975 - Bronze Medal of the Helsinki University
- 1993 - Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Address
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Center for Mathematical Statistics, Casa Academiei Romane, Calea 13
Septembrie nr. 13, RO-76100, Bucharest 5, Romania. E-mail: miosifes@acad.ro
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