New faculty member: Brian Rider

July 2012

Professor Brian Rider joined our department in July 2012. Rider is a probabilist whose current research is focused on random matrix theory. The study of (large dimensional) random matrices has somewhat humble roots in multivariate statistics dating from the early part of the last century, but has grown to have important implications for an enormous range of areas including combinatorics, information theory, operator algebras, number theory, theoretical physics, and integrable systems. Rider's recent work has resulted in new descriptions of some of the most basic distributions in random matrix theory, forming yet additional connections to different fields.

Rider comes to Temple from University of Colorado Boulder. Prior to that he held postdoctoral positions at the Technion and Duke University; he earned his Ph.D at NYU under the direction of Henry P. McKean, Jr. In 2008, Rider was a recipient of the Rollo Davidson Prize, an international prize awarded annually to leading young probabilists. In 2012, Rider was awarded a Simons Fellowship. (These fellowships are highly competitive awards recently initiated by the Simons Foundation; Jim Simons is a mathematician and hugely successful hedge fund manager.) Rider's research has been funded by the NSF and he currently holds an NSF CAREER grant.

Brian and his wife Jennifer (and kids ages 1 and 4) are delighted to be returning to the Northeast after many years. Both have always had a special fondness for Philadelphia, though Rider will remain a Sabres fan.

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