Rodrigo Bañuelos
Professor of Mathematics
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- MATH 428
Personal Website
Research Interest(s):
Probability and Harmonic Analysis
EDUCATION
- Pasadena City College , 1973-1974 (no degree).
- University of California, Santa Cruz : BA in Mathematics, 1978.
- University of California, Davis : M.A.T. in Mathematics (with a California High School Teaching Credential) 1980.
- University of California, Los Angeles : Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1984. (Advisor: Rick Durrett )
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- California Community Teaching Fellow, University of California, Davis, 1978-1980. (Winters Elementary School. Most fun years as a teacher!)
- Student Teacher, Sacramento High School, 1978-1980. Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles, 1980-1984.
- Bantrell Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1984-1986.
- Assistant Professor, Purdue University, 1986-1989.
- NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1986-1987.(Advisor: Don Burkholder)
- Associate Professor, Purdue University, 1989-1992. Professor, Purdue University, 1992-present
- Interim Head, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, July 2005-December 2005
- Head, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, 2007--2011
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Bantrell Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1984-1986.
- NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana and Purdue University, 1986-1989.
- Presidential Young Investigator, 1989-1994.
- Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2000.
- 2004 Blackwell-Tapia Prize in Mathematics
- Outstanding Latino Award, Purdue Latino Faculty and Staff Association (2009)
- Elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
- Inaugural fellow Fellow, Association for Women in Mathematics (2017)
- Martin Luther King Jr Dreamer Award, Purdue (2017)
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
- American Mathematical Society (AMS)
- Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Sciences (SACNAS)
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- European Mathematical Society (EMS)
- Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
- National Association of Mathematicians (NAM)
SERVICES TO THE PROFESSION
(SELECTED)
- Associate Editor, Annals of Probability, 1991-1996
- Probability and Statistics Editor, Transactions of the AMS, 1996-200
- AMS Committee to select hour speakers for regional meetings, 1991-1992, 2020-2022
- Chairman AMS Central Section Program Committee, 1992
- Organizer, Special Session on "Martingales and Applications to Analysis," March 1993
- 2nd International Symposium in Probability and Applications, Bloomington, IN.
- National Research Council Evaluation Panel, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 1995-1996
- Co-Organizer, Special Session on "Stochastic Processes", joint, November 1995
- American Math Society and Sociedad Matematica Mexicana, Guanajuato Mexico
- AMS Task Force on Participation of Underrepresented Minorities, 1995
- Organizer Committee for special year (1997-1998) in Stochastic Analysis, 1997-1998
- Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley CA
- The United States National Committee on Mathematics, 1997-2000
- Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) Scientific Advisory Council, 1998-2002
- AMS Committee on Committees, 2002-2004
- Selection Committee for Hour Speakers, AMS-Mexican Math Society Meeting, 2004
- Co-chair, Selection Committee for Blackwell-Tapia Prize, 2006-2008.
- Advisory Panel for Collaboration Grants in probability, statistics, harmonic analysis and functional analysis, Simon Foundation
- AMS Book Prize Committee, 2003-2004
- AMS Fellows Committee, 2019-2022
- AWM Fellows Committee, 2018-2021
- AMS Simons Travel Grant for young investigators, 2015-2018
- Probability Surveys, 2004-2005
- Editorial Board of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 2006-Present
- IPAM Board of Trustees, 2005-2008
- AMS Leroy P. Steele Prizes Committee, 2005-2008
- Scientific Program Committee, 32nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, Urbana, Champaign, August 6-10, 2007.
- Scientific Program Committee, Probability and Analysis Conference, Bedlewo, Poland, 2015.
- Organizing Committee, Latinos in the Mathematical Sciences Conference, IPAM 2015
- Editorial Board, Revista Matemática Iberoamericana, 2007-Present
- Associate Editor for Burkholder Memorial Volume, Annals of Probability, 2013-2017
- Editorial Board, Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 2016-present
- Editorial Board, Potential Analysis, 2016-present
- Editorial Board, Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 2015-present
Ph.D. STUDENTS
- Robert Smits ; "Conditioned Brownian Motion, Spectral Gaps and Rates to Equilibrium for Diffusions," May 1996
- Arthur J. Lindeman : "Martingales, the Beurling-Ahlfors Transform, and Lower Bounds for Ground State Eigenfunctions," May 1997
- Pedro Hénandez-Méndez : "Sharp inequalities for Dirichlet heat kernels for the Laplacian and the Fractional Laplacian with applications to probability," May 2001.
- Dahae You : "Sharp Inequalities for Schrodinger operators and Laws of the Iterated Logarithm," May 2002
- Prabhu Janakiraman : "Weak-Type Estimates for Singular Integrals and Maximal Operators," May 2004
- Ambica Rajagopal : "Continuity Properties of symmetric Stable Processes," May 2006
- Erkan Nane : "Iterated Brownian motion: Lifetime Asymptotics and Isoperimetric Inequalities," May 2006
- Bartlomeij Siudeja : "Properties of heat kernels," May 2008
- Sarah N. Bryant: "Path and spectral properties of certain Levy processes," August 2009.
- Luis Acuña Valverde ( Download papers here )
- Michael Perlmutter ( Download papers here )
- Daesung Kim Doob Instructor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Chapmaign.