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Contact Information :

Office Address :  Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications,
                  University of Minnesota,  
                  400 Lind Hall 
                  207 Church Street SE
                  Minneapolis, MN 55455

                  Phone : (612)-624-1867
                  Fax   : (612)-626-7370

                  Office Room : 434 Lind Hall

E-Mail         :  antar (at) ima (dot) umn (dot) edu

I graduated from University of California, Berkeley with PhD in Statistics in May 2003. My dissertation was on Max-type Recursive Distributional Equations and I worked under the guidance of Professor David J. Aldous. To see a summary of my dissertation click here.

I am currently a postdoctoral member at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications where I will stay for one year (September 2, 2003 - August 31, 2004). After that I am going to Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden where I will work with Professors Jeff Steif and Olle Haggstrom as a postdoctoral fellow for another two years (September 2004 - August 2006).

My main research interest is in the field of Mathematical Probability. In particular I am interested in probability on trees and on locally finite graphs; random algorithms; branching random walk; recursive distributional equations and recursive tree processes. I am also interested in the study of Markov Chains and their mixing behaviors.

IMA Postdoc Seminar 2003 - 2004 : This year myself and Gerard Awanou are organizing the IMA Postdoc Seminar.

Research :

Dissertation Research :

• Max-type Recursive Distributional Equation. PhD dissertation, Department of Statistics, UC, Berkeley. (May 2003).
  • Abstract
  • Dissertation
  • A a0-size Poster [ presented at IMA on September 23, 2003 ]

Preprints :

• Bivariate Uniqueness and Endogeny for Recursive Distributional Equations : Two Examples. (July 9, 2004)
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  • Paper

Publications :

• (with David J. Aldous) A Survey of Max-Type Recursive Distributional Equations. accepted for publication in Annals of Applied Probability. (July 2004)
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  • Paper
• Bivariate Uniqueness in the Logistic Recursive Distributional Equation. Technical Report # 629, Department of Statistics, UC, Berkeley. (November 2002)
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  • Slides from talk [ given in The Fourth International Symposium on Probability and its Applications, Banff, Canada, July 31 - August 2, 2002 ]
• (with David J. Aldous) How to Combine Fast Heuristic Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Slow Exact Sampling. Electronic Commun. Probab. 6 (2001) 79-89.
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  • Slides from talk [ given in the International Conference on Probability and Mathematical Statistics in honor of Professor C. R. Rao on his 80th Birthday in Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, which was held between December 29 to 31, 2000 ]

Slides from recent talks

Teaching :

Experiences :

• In Fall 2002 at UC, Berkeley I taught Statistics-134, Section 2 : Concepts of Probability.

Teaching Awards :

• The Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from the GSI Center, Graduate Division, UC, Berkeley on May 2002.
• The Teaching Effectiveness Award from the GSI Center, Graduate Division, UC, Berkeley on May 2002 for my essay on Mathematics : The Universal Language of Science.

Personal Stuff :

Curriculum Vitae.

Research Statement (not up-to-date).

Teaching philosophy, experiences and achievements (not up-to-date).

Here is how to pronounce my name written in phonetic symbols.

My Bookmarks.

Last modified July 9, 2004.