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Thomas S. Salisbury聽received his BSc in 1979 from McGill University, and his PhD in mathematics in 1983 from the University of British Columbia. After a postdoctoral position at Purdue University, he moved to 快播视频, in whose department of Mathematics and Statistics he is a Professor and former department chair. His research area is probability theory and stochastic processes, including applications of Brownian motion to actuarial finance. He has been a co-editor-in-chief of the聽Canadian Mathematical Bulletin聽and an associate editor of聽Probability Theory and Related Fields,听Potential Analysis, and the聽Canadian Journal of Statistics. He is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS), and of the Fields Institute, and won the CMS's聽Graham Wright award聽in 2015. He teaches financial engineering at York, was director of analytics at聽Quantitative Wealth Management Analytics group聽(QWeMA) prior to the latter's acquisition by CANNEX, and led the聽Finsurance聽project at MITACS-MPRIME. He chaired the task force that initiated the 2007 revision of the Ontario grade 12 curriculum, and subsequently served on the Ontario Minister of Education's curriculum council. He has served terms as President of the聽Canadian Mathematical Society聽and as Deputy Director of the聽Fields Institute, and is currently President of the聽Probability Section聽of the聽Statistical Society of Canada. His current research is supported by NSERC.
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Probability theory, Actuarial finance




