Research Expertise and Interest

large random combinatorial structures, random matrices, superprocesses & other measure-valued processes, probability on algebraic structures -particularly local fields, applications of stochastic processes to biodemography, mathematical finance, population genetics, phylogenetics & historical linguistics

Research Description

Steven N. Evans is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.  He has been a Presidential Young Investigator, a Sloan Fellow, and a Miller Fellow. He has received the Rollo Davidson Prize, the G. de B. Robinson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society, and the IMS Medallion.  He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.