Mailing Address:
215 Carnegie Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244-1150
FAX: (315) 443-1475

Office: 213B Carnegie Hall
Phone: (315) 443-1488
Email: jtcox@syr.edu

PhD

from Cornell University, 1976

Research

Studies interacting particle systems which are mathematical models of random processes of large systems of interacting components. Many such models arise in physics, biology, and mathematical ecology.

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Biography

Ted Cox earned his BS at Harvey Mudd College in 1972 and Ph.D. at Cornell in 1976, working under Frank Spitzer. He was assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology 1976-1977, at Southern California 1977-1979, and at SU 1979-1981, and was promoted to associate professor in 1981 and to professor in 1986. In 1987-1988 he was a visiting professor at Cornell and in 1997-1998 at British Columbia. He has specialized in probability and has published 55 papers, many with a wide variety of different coauthors, and has 4 more accepted or submitted. He has had NSF grants 1981-1983, 1984-1988, 1990-1992, 1993-present and National Security Agency grants 1988-1990 and 1992-1994. Moreover he was project director for a V CLAPEM travel grant 1993-1994 and for a USA/Brazil cooperative research grant 1996-1999, both from NSF. He has had one Ph.D. student, Thomas Pfaff (1999).

Ted has given AMS invited special session talks at Claremont 1977, Duluth 1979 and San Antonio 1987. Major invited lectures he has given include: Critical clustering in the two-dimensional voter model, Stochastic Processes Conference at the German Conference Center at Heidelberg in September 1984; Asymptotics for finite particle systems, 16th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications at Stanford in August 1987; and Rescaled voter models and super-Brownian Motion, International Conference on Stochastic Models in Ottawa in June 1998. He was associate editor for the Annals of Probability 1994-1999 and for the Electronic Journal of Probability 1999-2002. Since 7/1/02 he has been Editor of the Electronic Journal of Probability, and in 1989 he was Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

For the Department he has served on the Executive Committee 1985-1987, 1988-1990 and 1994-1996, Graduate Committee 1998-2001 (chair 2000-2001), Undergraduate Committee 1981-1984, and on 13 ad hoc committees on reappointment, promotion and/or tenure. He was a member of the College Promotion and Tenure Committee 1991-1992, 1996-1997 and 2001-2002, the ACS Faculty Liaison Committee 1988-1990, the Chancellor’s Citation Committee 1989,1990, and the United Way Campaign 1993-1994. Ted and Colleen Snow were married in 1980 and have a daughter Emily 17 and a son Jeffrey 11. Colleen is finishing an undergraduate degree in music education and Emily has been visiting possible colleges.

Source: September 2002 cv. and Ted’s responses to questions about his family. --Phil Church-- 9/17/02