Curriculum Vitae for Stanislav Volkov

last updated: July 2009

Personal

School of Mathematics, University Walk
Bristol, BS8 1TW, United Kingdom

Phone:	+44 (117) 928 9146
Fax:	+44 (117) 928 7999

Date of Birth: 14 December 1971 (Nizhniy Tagil)
Citizenship: Russia

Professional Experience

Aug.2004	-	present	Reader in Statistics, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
Jan.2001	-	Aug 2004	Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
Sep.1999	-	Dec.2000	Postdoctoral Researcher, EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Sep.1998	-	Aug.1999	Postdoctoral Fellow, The Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, Canada

Education

1996	-	98	graduate student, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. M.S. in Economics awarded in December 1997 GPA: 3.9/4.0 (Course work). Current status: ABD (all but dissertation), on leave of absence
1994	-	97	Candidate of Science (equiv. Ph.D.) in Mathematics. Graduate School of Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University, Russia. More about this...
1994	-	96	M.A. in Economics, New Economic School, Russia. GPA: 4.6/5.0 (Course work)
1989	-	94	M.S. in Mathematics, Department of Probability Theory, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University, Russia. GPA: 5.0/5.0 (Transcript)

Courses Taught

Probability III / IV (MATH 35700), University of Bristol
Applied Probability II (MATH 21400), University of Bristol
Theory of Inference (MATH 35600), University of Bristol
Advanced Statistical Topics (various parts, 4-8 lectures), University of Bristol
Statistics for Business and Economics, Tilburg University, Netherlands, Fall 2000
Stochastic Processes II (MATH 4430/6602), York University, Canada, Spring 1999
Elementary Probability (MATH 2030), York University, Canada, Fall 1998
Teaching Assistant, Econ Stats & Econometrics 1 (Econ 709), UW-Madison, Fall 1997
Teaching Assistant, Econ Stats & Econometrics 2 (Econ 710), UW-Madison, Spring 1998

Honors and Awards

European Science Foundationshort visit grant, 2006
EPSRC overseas travel grant, 2005-6
Nuffield Foundation grant, 2002-4
Royal Society conference grants, 2002, 2003, and 2007
UW-Madison fellow, 1996-97
Russian Foundation for Basic Research grants, 1995-96
George Soros Foundation grants, 1993-96
Diploma Summa cum Laude, Moscow State University, 1994

Papers (published and in progress):

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Invited and contributed talks

Statistics and Probability seminar, University of Sheffield, 5/11/09

Combinatorics seminar, University of Oxford, 27/10/09

Probability seminar, University of Cambridge, 13/10/09

“New Random Geometries” conference, Bath, 7-11/09/09 [no talk, invited visit only]

The 25th Nordic and 1st British-Nordic Congress, Oslo, Norway, 10/06/09

University of Stockholm, Sweden, 20/05/09

Miitag-Leffler Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 14/05/09

Probability seminar, University of Bath, 4/03/09

Ergodic theory seminar, University of Bristol, 2/10/08

Informal probability seminar, University of Bath, 23/04/08

Probability seminar, University of Bristol, 25/01/08

South West Probability Meeting, Bath, 31/07/07

LMS Durham symposium on Random Walks, 6/07/07

Groups and Dynamics seminar, Texas A&M University, USA, 18/04/07

Mini-conference "Interacting random walks", Oberwolfach, Germany, 20-26/05/07 [no talk, invited visit only]

Seminar, University of Houston, Clear Lake, USA, 16/04/07

Combinatorics and Probability seminar, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 10/04/07

Seminar, Ecole Normale Supériore, Paris, France, 4/04/07

Conference “Random Media”, Banff, Canada,8/11/06

Probability seminar, Oxford, 16/10/06

Probability seminar, Marseille, France, 29/09/06

“First-Passage and Extreme Value Problems in Random Processes”, Isaac Newton institute, Cambridge, 26/06/06

Seminar, University of Bielefeld, Germany,9/05/06

Statistics seminar, University of Bristol, 16/12/05

Probability seminar, University of Cambridge, 18/10/05

Statistics and Probability seminar, University of Liverpool, 28/09/05

Seminar, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, 23/09/05

International conference “Multi-scale problems: modelling, analysis and applications”, Bath, 14/09/05

Probability seminar, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, 31/08/05

Probability and Analysis seminar, University of Brest, France, 26/05/05

Conference on stochastic properties of dynamical systems, Roscoff, France, 17/05/05

Probability and Analysis seminar, University of Brest, France, 12/05/05

Probability Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 7/04/05

Probability Seminar, Cornell University, USA, 4/04/05

Probability Seminar, University of Minnesota, USA, 1/04/05

Spatial Stochastic Processes, University of Warwick, 28/02/05

Centre for Discrete and Applicable Mathematics, London School of Economics, 20/01/05

Seminar, University of Leeds, 26/11/04

Seminar, University of Sheffield, 11/11/04

Seminar, University of Durham, 29/09/04

Workshop “Scaling limits and percolation”, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 30/03/04

Stochastics seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, 26/02/2004

Stochastic Analysis Seminar, University of Oxford, 23/02/2004

Mathematics colloquium Ecole Nationale Supérieur de Télécommunication, Paris, France, 11/12/2003

Probability seminar, Université de Paris VI & VII, Paris, France, 9/12/2003

Meeting on Random Walk in Random Environment, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, 21/08/2003

Probability seminar, IME/USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 14/08/03

The 29^th conference on Stochastic Processes and Applications, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 7/08/2003

Stochastic Analysis seminar, University of Warwick, 29/05/2003

Economics seminar, University of Exeter, 23/05/2003

Probability and Random Systems seminar, SUNC, Raleigh, NC, USA, 7/04/2003

Mathematical Physics seminar, University of Bristol, 22/11/2002

Seminar on Stochastic Processes, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, 20/11/2002

The 4^th International Symposium on Probability and its Applications, Banff, Canada, 1/08/2002

The 3^rd Statistical Workshop of University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 25/07/2002

Mini-conference "Random processes in random media", Oberwolfach, Germany, 19/5/2002

Statistics Seminar, University of Durham, 25/01/2002

Midlands Probability Seminar, University of Warwick, 31/10/2001

Probability and Statistics Seminar, University of Bath, 26/10/2001

Stochastic Analysis Seminar, University of Oxford, 15/10/2001

27^th conference on Stochastic Processes and Applications, Cambridge,10/7/2001

Statistics Group Seminar, University of Nottingham, 14/6/2001

Informal Probability Seminar, Stats.Lab, Cambridge, 1/5/2001

Statistics seminar, University of Bristol, 27/4/2001

South-West Probability Seminar, HP, Bristol, 3/4/2001

Statistics seminar, University of Bristol, 21/1/2001

Probability seminar, Purdue University, USA, 4/12/2000

Probability seminar, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 22/11/2000

Eurandom problem session, Eurandom, Netherlands, 26/10/2000

Probability seminar, CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 19/9/2000

HP-BRIMS conference, Bristol, 14/9/2000 (research announcement)

The conference "Stat Mech 2000", Cambridge, 9/8/2000

The conference "Self-Interacting Random processes", Oberwolfach, Germany, 25/5/2000

Post-doc seminar, Eurandom, Netherlands, 20/4/2000

Mark Kac seminar, Utrecht, Netherlands, 6/11/1999

Post-doc seminar, Eurandom, Netherlands, 14/10/1999

The conference "Probability Models on (Exotic) Graphs", Colorado-Springs, USA, 28/5/1999

Probability seminar, Purdue University, USA, 5/5/1999

AMS Spring Eastern Sectional meeting in Buffalo, NY, USA, 25/4/1999

Probability Seminar, The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, Canada, 17/3/1999

Probability Seminar, The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, Canada, 24/2/1999

Probability Seminar, The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences,Toronto, Canada, 25/11/1998

Probability Seminar, The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences,Toronto, Canada, 4/11/1998

Probability Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 2/1997

Probability Seminar, Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 1/1997

Probability Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 10/1996

Various probability seminars, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University, Russia, 1993-96

International conference at Lyapunov French-Russian institute in computer sciences and applied mathematics, Moscow, Russia, 6/1994

Postgraduate students

Skevi Michael, started 2007.

Henry Arnold, started 2006.

Dr. Codina Cotar, Ph.D. (2004), currently at TU-München

Dr. Raquel Granell, Ph.D. (2006), currently at Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol

Computer skills

Operational systems: Ms-Dos, Windows, UNIX

Software and packages: Word, Excel, GAUSS, Maple, LaTeX

Programming languages: Pascal, C

Language Proficiencies

Fluent English, native Russian, fluent French and some Dutch and Welsh