Short Vita for J. Zinn

EDUCATION

• B.S. Mathematics, Queens College, C.U.N.Y., June 1966

• Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, August, 1972 (under J. Kuelbs)

PRESENT POSITION

• Assoc. Prof. 1981-1982, Texas A&M University,
• Professor September, 1982 - Present, Texas A&M University.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

• Visiting, University of Minnesota, School of Mathematics, Sept., 1972 -June, 1973.

• Assist. Prof., University of Massachusetts, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Sept., 1973 - June, 1977.

• Assist. Prof. 1977-1978, Michigan State University, Department of Statistics and Probability, Assoc. Prof. Sept., 1978 - June, 1981.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Papers:

Short Appointments

• Twice supported by Univerité de Strasbourg to visit for one month.

• One semester at MSRI workshop on Empirical Processes and Applications - 1991-92.

Honors

• Invited for one hour address at central section meeting of the AMS. October 1994.

• Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (as of 1984).

• Two Special Invited Papers in the Annals of Probability (see #14 and #22 in Publication list.)

• Courtesy appointment in the Department of Statistics, TAMU.

Special Lectures:

• Lecture Series given at the University of Ottawa, summer of 1985.
• Half of short course for conference on Probability in Banach Spaces in Bowdoin, Maine, Summer 1991.
• Invited one hour lecture at AMS meeting in Stillwater, Oklahoma, October, 1994.

Ph.d. Students:

• Anant Godbole
• Steve Sepanski
• Anda Gadidov
• Wang Chiu

Professional Service:

• Organized a variety of special sessions
• Associate editor of Statistics and Probability Letters, 1982--1992.
• Associate editor of Annals of Probability, April, 2000-present.
• Co-organizer of Workshop on Linear Analysis and Probability (with W. B. Johnson, D. Larson and G. Pisier) (since 1989).
• Co-organizer of Concentration Week on the Gaussian Correlation Inequality and Related Topics (with Th. Schlumprecht) (1998).