Jump to content

Michael Lin (mathematician)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Lin
Born (1942-06-08) June 8, 1942 (age 82)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Alma materThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ohio State University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics: Ergodic theory; Markov chain
InstitutionsBen-Gurion University of the Negev, Achva Academic College

Michael Lin (Hebrew: מיכאל לין) (born June 8, 1942) is an Israeli mathematician, who has published scientific articles in the field of probability concentrating on Markov chains and ergodic theory.[1][2] He serves as professor emeritus at the Department of Mathematics in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU).[3] Additionally, he is a member of the academic board and serves as the academic coordinator at Achva Academic College.[4]

Biography

[edit]

Michael Lin was born in Israel. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1963), Master of Science in Mathematics (1967) and a PhD in Mathematics also from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1971). In 1971 he was appointed as an assistant professor in Ohio State University. In 1976 he returned to Israel and became a senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Only 4 years later, at 1979, he became an associate professor and in 1984 he became a full professor. In 2011, Professor Lin retired and nowadays he serves as professor emeritus. During his career at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev he acted as:

  • Computer Science Coordinator, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, BGU.
  • Member of BGU Computer Policy committee.
  • Chairman and Computer Science Coordinator, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, BGU.
  • Senate representative to Executive Committee of Board of Trustees of BGU.
  • Senate representative to the BGU Executive Committee's subcommittee for student affairs.
  • President, Israel Mathematical Union.[5][6]
  • Head of the Ethical Code Committee of BGU.[7]

In 2004 Professor Lin also acted as a member of the committee electing the recipients of the Israel Prize in mathematics.[8]

Research and publications

[edit]

Professor Lin's published work focuses on two main areas of research in the field of probability: Ergodic theory[9][10] and Markov chain.[11][12] More specifically, he researched in several areas: mean and individual Ergodic theory,[13][14] Central limit theorem[15] and functional analysis.[9][16]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Microsoft academic search Michael Lin". Archived from the original on 2012-11-29. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
  2. ^ "Probability Theory and Related Areas Research Group". Math.bgu.ac.il. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  3. ^ "BGU Math Emeritus Faculty". Math.bgu.ac.il. Archived from the original on 2008-10-06. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  4. ^ Achva Academic College - academic coordinators Archived 2012-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Israel Mathematical Union". Imu.org.il. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  6. ^ "הישגים נאים לנבחרת המתמטיקה הישראלית בתחרות בינלאומית באתונה | הידען". Hayadan.org.il. 17 March 2008. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  7. ^ members of BGU committees
  8. ^ PrasMatmatika.htm
  9. ^ a b Derriennic, Yves; Lin, Michael (1973). "On invariant measures and ergodic theorems for positive pperators". Journal of Functional Analysis. 13 (3): 252–267. doi:10.1016/0022-1236(73)90034-7.
  10. ^ Lin, Michael; Weber, Michel (2007). "Weighted ergodic theorems and strong laws of large numbers". Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. 27 (2): 511–543. doi:10.1017/S0143385706000769. S2CID 121073212.
  11. ^ Lin, Michael (1970). "Conservative Markov processes on a topological space". Israel Journal of Mathematics. 8 (2): 165–186. doi:10.1007/BF02771312.
  12. ^ Derriennic, Yves; Lin, Michael (2011). "Variance bounding Markov chains, L2-uniform mean ergodicity and the CLT". Stochastics and Dynamics. 11 (1): 81–94. doi:10.1142/S0219493711003176.
  13. ^ Çömez, Doğan; Lin, Michael; Olsen, James (1998). "Weighted ergodic theorems for mean ergodic L1-contractions". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 350 (1): 101–117. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-98-01986-2.
  14. ^ Cohen, Guy; Lin, Michael (2010). "The one-sided ergodic Hilbert transform of normal contractions". Characteristic Functions, Scattering Functions and Transfer Functions. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Vol. 197. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel. pp. 77–98. doi:10.1007/978-3-0346-0183-2_4. ISBN 978-3-0346-0182-5.
  15. ^ Derriennic, Yves; Lin, Michael (2007). "The Central Limit Theorem for Random Walks on Orbits of Probability Preserving Transformations". Topics in Harmonic Analysis and Ergodic Theory. Contemporary Mathematics. Vol. 444. pp. 31–51. doi:10.1090/conm/444. ISBN 9780821842355.
  16. ^ Jones, Lee K.; Lin, Michael (1980). "Unimodular Eigenvalues and Weak Mixing". Journal of Functional Analysis. 35 (1): 42–48. doi:10.1016/0022-1236(80)90079-8.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Lin_(mathematician)&oldid=1255319778"