Iosif Pinelis
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Professor
Primary Area: Probability and Statistics
Office: Fisher 304
(906) 487-2108
Email: ipinelis@mtu.edu
Education:
- PhD in Probability and Statisitics, Institute of Mathematics
Recently Taught Courses:
- MA5711 Mathematical Statistics I
- MA5712 Mathematical Statistics II
- MA5721
- MA6700
- MA6701
Research:
- Probability (Extremal problems, exact inequalities, and limit theorems for sums of independent random variables and martingales, including those in functional spaces)
- Statistics (minimax estimation, Student's and Hotelling's tests and their generalizations)
- Optimization and Operations Research (minimax duality in general, duality in transportation problems and in probability and statistics)
- Analytic inequalities (l'Hospital-type rules for monotonicity, general multilinear Stolarsky-type inequalities, etc.)
- Geometry (geometry in the theory of relativity, incidence geometry and geometric algebra, convex geometry, computational geometry, hyperbolic geometry)
- Combinatorics (0-1 matrices, generalizations of Hall's theorem, discrete mass transportation duality)
- Physics (theory of relativity under minimal assumptions)
- Biology (evolution modeling, population dynamics)
- Mechanical Engineering (Eiffel Tower shape modeling)
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