Dr. Donald Dawson
Fellow
Current Employer
Carleton University
Election Year
1987
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Department
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords
Stochastic processes, probability theory
Donald Dawson has made a broad variety of basic contributions to the description and analysis of physical systems in which random elements play an essential role. He works at the heart of modern probability theory and at such a level of generality that virtually any temporal model is a particular case of his work, but he seems always to have an eye open towards practical applications. In particular he has introduced the concept of multiplicative or branching measure diffusion process and created the method of hierarchical mean field limits.