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Name: Pablo Augusto Ferrari
Place and date of birth: Buenos Aires, November 9th, 1949.
Nationality: Italian-Argentinian.
Married, 4 children.

ADDRESS:

Instituto de Matemática e Estatística
Universidade de São Paulo
Rua do Matão 1010
05508-090 São Paulo, Brazil
pablo at ime dot usp dot br

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS.

Licenciado em Matemática, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina, (1974). Master in Statistics (1978). PhD in Statistics (1982). "Livre Docente" (1988). Full professor (1990) at Instituto de Matemática e Estatística da Universidade de São Paulo.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Assistant professor at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional de Tucumán and Instituto de Matemática, Astronomia e Física, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Argentina. (1976-1977). Professor at Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo since 1978, Full Professor since 1990.

AWARDS:

Guggenhein Foundation Fellowship, 1999

RESEARCH STAGES:

Université de Paris VI, December 1981, December 1986, January 1987 Universitá di Roma, January-February 1982. Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, NJ-USA, December 1982- February 1983 August-1984 March-July-1985, December 1987, January 1990. Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques September-1984 - February 1985. Rutgers University, February 1986. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara. October -November 1987. Universitá di Roma Tor Vergata - January - July 1989, February 1992, July 1992, September1994, August 1997. Universidad de Chile - January 1991, December 1992, May 1993, May 1994. Ecole Politechnique, Paris - July 1992. Newton Institute at Cambridge University (UK) July 1993 to December 1993 and May-June 2006. Université de Paris VII, Cergy Pontoise e Rouen janeiro a dezembro 1999. Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques 2005.

INVITED CONFERENCES

-Particle Systems, Random Media and Large Deviations, Maine, USA, July 1985.
-Random Fields, Koszeg, Hungria, August 1984.
-VII Elam, Rio de Janeiro, August 1986.
- XVI Colóquio Brasileiro de Matemática (Course) , July 1987.
-II International Workshop on Neural Networks and Automata, Bogotá, July 1989, (Course).
- Conferencia de Física Estatística, Santiago-Chile, December 1990.
- Les Houches summer School in Cellular Automata, France June 1992.
- Simposio Nacional de Probabilidade e Estatística, Rio de Janeiro, July 1992.
- Conferencia de Física Estatística, Santiago-Chile, December 1992.
- V Congresso Latino Americano de Probabilidade e Estatística July 1993 (Chairman)
- Probability Theory of Spatial Disorder and Phase Transition, Cambridge, July 1993
- On three Levels, Leuven, July 1993
- Simpósio Nacional de Probabilidade e Estatística, Belo Horizonte July 1994.
- Colóquio Brasileiro de Matemática, Rio de Janeiro, July 1995 (Chairman)
- Disordered systems and statistical physics: rigorous results 21-25 August 1995, Budapest.
- Simpósio Nacional de Probabilidade e Estatística, Caxambu July 1996.
- Interacting particle systems and their applications, Technion 17-24 June 1996.
- Homogenization and random media, Marseille, 24-28 June 1996.
- Congreso en homenaje al Dr. Antonio Monteiro, Bahia Blanca, April 1997.
- 24th Conference in Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Valparaiso, June 16-20, 1997.
- Colóquio Brasileiro de Matemática, Rio de Janeiro, July 1997 (Course)
- Escola Brasileira de Probabilidade, Rio de Janeiro, August 1997.
- Stochastic Modeling of Physical Systems, Cambridge, 8-12 September 1997.
- Institut Thémathique D'eté, Grandes déviations, mécanique statistique et sistèmes de particules, Julho 1996, Marseille.
- II-èmes Rencontres Mathématiques de l'Université de Rouen. Interacting Particle Systems and Related Topics, June 2-3 1998
- IMS/WNAR meeting in San Diego, june 1998. Special invited conference.
- Inégalités de Sobolev logarithmiques Mécanique statistique, grandes déviations, Institut Henrí Poincaré, July 1998.
- II Escola Brasileira de Probabilidade, Barra do Sahi, August 1998.
- Macroscopic stochastic fluctuations: Equilibrium and non-equilibrium. Vulcano, September 1998.
- Congresso Latinoamericano de Probabilidade e Estatística Matemática, Córdoba, Argentina, September 1998.
- 27th Conference in Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Pekin, June 1999.
- Fifth World Congress of the Bernoulli Society, Guanajuato, May 15-20, 2000
- New trends in Statistical Mechanics, Siena, May, 21-25, 2000 
- Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Matematicos, Rio de Janeiro, July 31 - August 4, 2000
- XIII Escuela Venezolana de Matematicas, September 2000
- From Classical to Modern Probability. CIMPA summer school. Temuco, Chile January 8-26 2001
- 23 Coloquio Brasileiro de Matematica, Rio de Janeiro, July 2001 .
- V Brazilian School of Probability, Ubatuba, July 30 - August 4, 2001.
- VIII CLAPEM, November 12-16, 2001, University of Havana, Cuba
- VI Congrès Franco-Chilien de Mathématiques Appliquées, Santiago, December 2001.
- International Workshop on Applied Probability IWAP2002, Caracas, January 14 to 17 2002,
- Summer Internships in Probability and Stochastic Processes, University of Wisconsin - Madison, June 24 - August 9, 2002
- VI Brazilian School of Probability, August 5-10 2002
- Randomness in space and time, Budapest, 23--27 June 2003
- Prague Summer School, Prague, 30 June -- 11 July, 2003
- XXIX Stochastic Processes and their Applications VII Brazilian School on Probability, Angra dos Reis, August 3 - 9, 2003
- INMAT, 15, 16 y 17 de diciembre 2003, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Buenos Aires
- IX CLAPEM, Punta del Este, 22 al 26 de Marzo del 2004
- IMS/Bernoully Society Meeting IMUB, Barcelona 26-31 July 2004
- 8th Brazilian School of Probability, Ubatuba 1 to 7th August 2004.
- Large Scale Stochastic Dynamics, Oberwolfach, August 29th - September 4th, 2004.
- 1er Encuentro Regional de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática, Buenos Aires, 30 de setiembre - 2 de octubre 2004.
- Ciencia Tecnologia y Sociedad (AAPC-SBPC), Buenos Aires, 1 a 4 de noviembre 2004.
- School on Information and Randomness, Santiago, December 13 - 17, 2004.
- Systemes Aleatoires Inhomogenes, Institut Henri Poincare, January 25-26 2005.
- 25 Coloquio Brasileiro de Matemática. Rio de Janeiro, 24 a 29 de julho 2005.
- 9 Escola Brasileira de Probabilidade Maresias, 31 de julho a 6 de agosto 2005.
- III Escuela de Invierno de Análisis Estocástico y Aplicaciones. Valparaiso, 29 de Agosto a 2 de Septiembre 2005.
- Directed Polymers, Leipzig, September 11 - 17, 2005 33 Coloquio Argentino de Estadística. Córdoba. Del 5 al 7 de Octubre de 2005.
- III INMAT Congreso Internacional de Matemática Aplicada a la Ingeniería y Enseñanza de la Matemática en Ingeniería, Buenos Aires, 11, 12, 13 y 14 de octubre 2005.
- Fourth Northeast Probability Seminar. Courant Institute, New York, November 17-18, 2005.
- 2do ERPEM, Encuentro Regional de Probabilidad y Estadística Matemática. Buenos Aires, 28 a 30 de noviembre 2005.
- XIV ELAM - Escuela Latino Americana de Matemática. Solís, Uruguay. 1-9 December 2005.
- International Congress on the Applications of Mathematics Santiago de Chile. March 13-17, 2006.
- Principles of the Dynamics of Non-Equilibrium Systems Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 9 Jan - 30 Jun 2006.
- 2006 IMS Annual Meeting & 10th Brazilian School of Probability (X EBP). IMPA, Rio de Janeiro. From July 30 to August 4, 2006.
- Asymptotics, particles, processes and inverse problems Lorentz Center, 10 Jul 2006 to 14 Jul 2006.
- Processos estocásticos aplicados à  estatí­stica espacial, NUMEC, Sao Paulo, 25 a 27 de outubro, 2006.
- 3er Encuentro Regional de Probabilidad y Estadí­stica Mateática , Buenos Aires, 27 a 29 de noviembre 2006.
- Conferencia Internacional de Matemática IMCA 2006. Lima, 4 a 8 de Diciembre del 2006.
- School on Information and Randomness 2006 Santiago de Chile. December 11-15, 2006.
- School and Workshop on Probability Theory and Applications ICTP/CNPq, January 21 - February 3, 2007 Campos do Jordão, Brasil.
- X Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (CLAPEM) Lima, 27 febrero a 3 de marzo 2007.
- Conférence internationnale en probabilités et statistique. Journées ESAIM P&S. Toulouse, les 14 et 15 Juin 2007.
- XI Escola Brasileira de Probabilidade Maresias, 5 a 11 de Agosto 2007.
- Large Scale Stochastic Dynamics Oberwolfach, August 26th - September 1st, 2007.
- FQM Quantum Reality: Ontology, Probability, Relativity Rutgers, October 7th to 9th, 2007.
- 4 Encuentro Regional de Probabilidad y Estadistica Matematica Solis, de 8 a 10de noviembre 2007.
- First Indo-Brazilian Symposium in Mathematics IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, de 28/07 até 01/08 de 2008.
- XII Escola Brasileira de Probabilidade Ouro Preto, 3 a 9 de agosto 2008.
- Workshop on Probability and Dynamics Santiago, August 27-29, 2008.

REFEREE AND REVIEWER

- Annals of Probability - Journal Statistical Physics - Probability Theory and Related Fields - Stochastic Processes and its Applications - Mathematical Reviews - Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

- European Series in Applied and Industrial Mathematics. Probability and Statistics (2006-...)
- ALEA, Revista Latino-Americana de Probabilidade e Estatística (2005-...)
- Annals of Probability (2003-2006)
- Mathematical Physics Electronic Journal (2002-...)
- Electronic Journal of Probability (1996-2006)
- Revista Brasileira de Probabilidade e Estatística (Brasil) (1994-2000)
- Revista de Matematicas Aplicadas (Chile)(1993-2008)
- Probability Theory and Related Fields (2008-...)
- Journal of Statistical Physics (1993-96) 

ADMINISTRATION ACTIVITIES

- Member of Advising Committee of CNPq 1993-1996,  FAPESP 1996-1998, CAPES 1996.
- Chair of the Department of Statistics of University of São Paulo (1996-1998).
- President of the Research Committee of Instituto de Matemática e Estatística da Universidade de São Paulo 1995-1996.
- Vice Director of the Instituto de Matemática e Estatística da Universidade de São Paulo 1998-2002.

GRANT REFEREE:

CNPq, FAPESP. CAPES, FINEP (Brasil), CONICYT (Chile), NSF (USA), CONICET (Argentina).

MEMBERSHIP - Member of the International Statistic Institute ISI, ABE (Brazilian Statistical Association), SBM (Brazilian Mathematical Society), Bernoulli Society, AMS (American Mathematical Society), IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics).

STUDENTS

Master:

- Elisabete Kira, Flutuações da interface em sistemas de spins bidimensionais, IME-USP (1989).
- Eduardo Mauro, Crescimento de superfícies aleatórias, IME-USP (1992).
- Márcia Salzano, Propriedades ergódicas do processo de exclusão com ramificação, IME-USP. (1993)
- Adriano Siqueira, O processo de exclusão simples assimétrico, IME-USP (1998). 
- Márcio Watanabe, 2008.

PHd:

- Rinaldo. B. Schinazi (1988) Comportamento da borda de sistemas Markovianos de partículas interagindo com os vizinhos mais próximos sobre Z, IME-USP.
- Fábio Machado (1994) Resultados assintóticos para o modelo de exclusão com contágio, IME-USP.
- Jesús Garcia (2000), Processo de Hammersley, IME-USP.
- Laura Ramos (2001) Castanhas de Pará, IME-USP.
- Tomas Tetzlaff, (2004) Procesos de ramificación con tipos no acotados y simulación de redes con pérdida, DC-UBA. 
- Marcos Antonio Santos (2004) Simulação perfeita de processos de nascimento e morte espaciais, IME-USP.
- Valentim Sisko (2004) Percolation, contact process, and random environment, IME-USP.
- Fredy Walther Castellares Caceres (2005) Autômato celular probabilista, modelos undimensionais de trânsito e teoria de filas. IME-USP .
- Thomas Logan Ritchie, (2005) Construção do limite de saturação termodinâmico para o "parking process" e outros esquemas de exclusão em Zd.
- Nevena Maric, IME-USP (2006) Distribuições quase-estacionárias e o processo Fleming-Viot.
- Cristian Coletti, IME-USP (2006) Caminhos orientados e o processo de Hammersley.
- Sebastian Grynberg (2004-...)
- Rafael Grisi (2006-...)
- Iesus Diniz (2005-...)

Post Doctoral:

- Vladimir Belitsky (1993-94).
- Hervé Guiol (1996-97).
- Gustavo Guerberoff (1998-2000).
- José Ricardo G. de Mendonça (2000).
- Davide Gabrielle (2000).
- Elisabeth Remy (2000).
- Beat Niederhauser (2000-2003).
- Wu Xian Yuan (2001-2002)
- Miguel Abadi (2003)
- Leandro Pimentel (2004) (2007)
- Fernando Pigeard Almeida Prado (2004-2005)
- Marcelo Sobottka (2007)
- Ana Patricia Gonçalves (2007)

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