Amir Dembo
Amir Dembo (born 25 October 1958, Haifa) is an Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in probability theory.
Biography
Dembo received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1980 from the Technion. He obtained in 1986 his doctorate in electrical engineering under the supervision of David Malah with the thesis "Design of Digital FIR Filter Arrays".[1] He joined Stanford University as Assistant Professor of Statistics and Mathematics in 1990, and is currently the Marjorie Mhoon Fair Professor in Quantitative Science there.
His research deals with probability theory and stochastic processes, the theory of large deviations, the spectral theory of random matrices, random walks, and interacting particle systems.
He was Invited Speaker with the talk Simple random covering, disconnection, late and favorite points at the ICM in Madrid in 2006. Dembo is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Selected publications
Articles
- with Yuval Peres, Jay Rosen and Ofer Zeitouni: Dembo, Amir; Peres, Yuval; Rosen, Jay; Zeitouni, Ofer (2001). "Thick points for planar Brownian motion and the Erdős-Taylor conjecture on random walk". Acta Mathematica. 186 (2): 239–270. doi:10.1007/BF02401841.
- with Bjorn Poonen, Qi-Man Shao and Ofer Zeitouni: Dembo, Amir; Poonen, Bjorn; Shao, Qi-Man; Zeitouni, Ofer (2002). "Random polynomials having few or no real zeros". J. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (4): 857–892. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-02-00386-7.
- with Yuval Peres, Jay Rosen and Ofer Zeitouni: Dembo, Amir; Peres, Yuval; Rosen, Jay; Zeitouni, Ofer (2002). "Thick points for intersections of planar sample paths". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 354 (12): 4969–5003. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-02-03080-5.
Books
- with Ofer Zeitouni: Large Deviations Techniques and Applications, Springer, Dembo, Amir; Zeitouni, Ofer (2009). 2nd edition, corrected printing of 1998 edition. ISBN 9783642033117; pbk
Sources
- Zhan Shi: Problèmes de recouvrement et points exceptionnels pour la marche aléatoire et le mouvement brownien, d’après Dembo, Peres, Rosen, Zeitouni, Seminaire Bourbaki, No. 951, 2005
