Erhan Çinlar
Erhan Çınlar | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 28, 1941[3] |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Citizenship | Turkish American Turkey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Known for | Contributions to the theory ofstochastic processesand their applications toqueueing theory. |
| Awards | Institute for Operations Research and the Management SciencesSaul Gass Expository Writing Award for his bookIntroduction to Stochastic Processes,published in 1975 by Prentice-Hall.(2003) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Analysis of Systems of Queues in Parallel(1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ralph L. Disney[1] |
Erhan Çınlar(born May 28, 1941,[3]Divriği,Sivas-Turkey[2]) is aprobabilistandProfessor EmeritusatPrinceton University.He was the Norman J. Sollenberger Professor of the department ofOperations ResearchandFinancial Engineering(ORFE) at Princeton University.[4]
Academic life
[edit]He received aB.S.inMathematicsand aM.S.andPh.D.inIndustrial Engineeringand Operations Research, all from theUniversity of Michiganin 1963, 1964 and 1965, respectively.[5]His dissertation,Analysis of Systems of Queues in Parallel,was supervised by Ralph L. Disney, theacademic grandsonof logicianBjarni Jónsson.[1]
In 1965, he joined the department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences as an assistant professor atNorthwestern University.During 1971–1972, he was a visiting professor in the department of Management Science and Engineering atStanford University,and became full professor of Operations Research in 1972 atNorthwestern.He then joined the department of Civil Engineering andOperations Researchas a professor atPrinceton Universityin 1985.[6][7]
Research areas
[edit]Çinlar is the co-founder (along withKai-lai Chungand Ronald Getoor) of the seminar onstochastic processes,[8]which is an annual conference on probability topics such asMarkov processes,Brownian motion,superprocesses,stochastic analysis,andmathematical finance.[9]
Awards
[edit]- INFORMS Expository Writing Award[10]
- 2003 class ofFellowsof theInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.[11]
References
[edit]- ^abErhan Çinlarat theMathematics Genealogy Project
- ^abLebensdaten nachAmerican Men and Women of Science,Thomson Gale 2004
- ^ab""Erhan Çinlar", Eugene B. Dynkin Collection of Mathematics Interviews ".Cornell University Library.Archived fromthe originalon 2021-07-30.
- ^Faculty of Operations Research and Financial Engineering,Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
- ^Erhan Çinlar's biography
- ^"The Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research (CEOR) at Princeton".Archived fromthe originalon 2015-12-12.Retrieved2016-03-31.
- ^Civil Engineering and Operations Research,Office of Communications at Princeton University announces that the Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research Faculty split in two on April 9, 1999 in such a way that one will be called Civil and Environmental Engineering; the other will be Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
- ^SSP History,University of Washington
- ^Seminar on Stochastic Processes,University of Washington
- ^"Erhan Çınlar".Archived fromthe originalon 2012-05-24.Retrieved2012-09-07.
- ^Fellows: Alphabetical List,Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences,archived fromthe originalon 2019-05-10,retrieved2019-10-09
- Living people
- 1941 births
- Probability theorists
- Queueing theorists
- University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
- Northwestern University faculty
- Princeton University faculty
- 20th-century Turkish mathematicians
- Turkish operations researchers
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- American operations researchers
- American academics of Turkish descent
- Turkish emigrants to the United States
- Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
- 21st-century American mathematicians