Rodrigo Bañuelos

Professor Emeritus

• 765-49-41977

• MATH 428

banuelos@purdue.edu
Personal Website

Research Interest(s):

Probability and Harmonic Analysis

EDUCATION

• Pasadena City College , 1973-1974 (no degree).
• University of California, Santa Cruz : BA in Mathematics, 1978.
• University of California, Davis : M.A.T. in Mathematics (with a California High School Teaching Credential) 1980.
• University of California, Los Angeles : Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1984. (Advisor: Rick Durrett )

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• California Community Teaching Fellow, University of California, Davis, 1978-1980. (Winters Elementary School. Most fun years as a teacher!)
• Student Teacher, Sacramento High School, 1978-1980. Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles, 1980-1984.
• Bantrell Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1984-1986.
• Assistant Professor, Purdue University, 1986-1989.
• NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1986-1987.(Advisor: Don Burkholder)
• Associate Professor, Purdue University, 1989-1992. Professor, Purdue University, 1992-present
• Interim Head, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, July 2005-December 2005
• Head, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, 2007--2011

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Bantrell Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1984-1986.
• NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana and Purdue University, 1986-1989.
• Presidential Young Investigator, 1989-1994.
• Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2000.
• 2004 Blackwell-Tapia Prize in Mathematics
• Outstanding Latino Award, Purdue Latino Faculty and Staff Association (2009)
• Elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
• Inaugural fellow Fellow, Association for Women in Mathematics (2017)
• Martin Luther King Jr Dreamer Award, Purdue (2017)

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• American Mathematical Society (AMS)
• Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Sciences (SACNAS)
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
• European Mathematical Society (EMS)
• Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
• National Association of Mathematicians (NAM)

SERVICES TO THE PROFESSION (SELECTED)

• Associate Editor, Annals of Probability, 1991-1996
• Probability and Statistics Editor, Transactions of the AMS, 1996-200
• AMS Committee to select hour speakers for regional meetings, 1991-1992, 2020-2022
• Chairman AMS Central Section Program Committee, 1992
• Organizer, Special Session on "Martingales and Applications to Analysis," March 1993
• 2nd International Symposium in Probability and Applications, Bloomington, IN.
• National Research Council Evaluation Panel, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 1995-1996
• Co-Organizer, Special Session on "Stochastic Processes", joint, November 1995
• American Math Society and Sociedad Matematica Mexicana, Guanajuato Mexico
• AMS Task Force on Participation of Underrepresented Minorities, 1995
• Organizer Committee for special year (1997-1998) in Stochastic Analysis, 1997-1998
• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley CA
• The United States National Committee on Mathematics, 1997-2000
• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) Scientific Advisory Council, 1998-2002
• AMS Committee on Committees, 2002-2004
• Selection Committee for Hour Speakers, AMS-Mexican Math Society Meeting, 2004
• Co-chair, Selection Committee for Blackwell-Tapia Prize, 2006-2008.
• Advisory Panel for Collaboration Grants in probability, statistics, harmonic analysis and functional analysis, Simon Foundation
• AMS Book Prize Committee, 2003-2004
• AMS Fellows Committee, 2019-2022
• AWM Fellows Committee, 2018-2021
• AMS Simons Travel Grant for young investigators, 2015-2018
• Probability Surveys, 2004-2005
• Editorial Board of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 2006-Present
• IPAM Board of Trustees, 2005-2008
• AMS Leroy P. Steele Prizes Committee, 2005-2008
• Scientific Program Committee, 32nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, Urbana, Champaign, August 6-10, 2007.
• Scientific Program Committee, Probability and Analysis Conference, Bedlewo, Poland, 2015.
• Organizing Committee, Latinos in the Mathematical Sciences Conference, IPAM 2015
• Editorial Board, Revista Matemática Iberoamericana, 2007-Present
• Associate Editor for Burkholder Memorial Volume, Annals of Probability, 2013-2017
• Editorial Board, Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 2016-present
• Editorial Board, Potential Analysis, 2016-present
• Editorial Board, Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 2015-present

Ph.D. STUDENTS

• Robert Smits ; "Conditioned Brownian Motion, Spectral Gaps and Rates to Equilibrium for Diffusions," May 1996
• Arthur J. Lindeman : "Martingales, the Beurling-Ahlfors Transform, and Lower Bounds for Ground State Eigenfunctions," May 1997
• Pedro Hénandez-Méndez : "Sharp inequalities for Dirichlet heat kernels for the Laplacian and the Fractional Laplacian with applications to probability," May 2001.
• Dahae You : "Sharp Inequalities for Schrodinger operators and Laws of the Iterated Logarithm," May 2002
• Prabhu Janakiraman : "Weak-Type Estimates for Singular Integrals and Maximal Operators," May 2004
• Ambica Rajagopal : "Continuity Properties of symmetric Stable Processes," May 2006
• Erkan Nane : "Iterated Brownian motion: Lifetime Asymptotics and Isoperimetric Inequalities," May 2006
• Bartlomeij Siudeja : "Properties of heat kernels," May 2008
• Sarah N. Bryant: "Path and spectral properties of certain Levy processes," August 2009.
• Luis Acuña Valverde ( Download papers here )
• Michael Perlmutter ( Download papers here )
• Daesung Kim Doob Instructor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Chapmaign.