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Marcel F. Neuts (1935-2014) Born in Belgium in 1935 Masters, Stanford, 1958–59

Marcel F. Neuts (1935-2014) Born in Belgium in 1935 Masters, Stanford, 1958–59 PhD, Stanford, 1959–61 (Supervisor: Samuel Karlin) Purdue University, 1962–76 University of Delaware, 1976–85 University of Arizona, 1985–96. Major Achievements. Matrix-analytic methods ( MAM )

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Marcel F. Neuts (1935-2014) Born in Belgium in 1935 Masters, Stanford, 1958–59

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  1. Marcel F. Neuts (1935-2014) • Born in Belgium in 1935 • Masters, Stanford, 1958–59 • PhD, Stanford, 1959–61 (Supervisor: Samuel Karlin) • Purdue University, 1962–76 • University of Delaware, 1976–85 • University of Arizona, 1985–96

  2. Major Achievements Matrix-analytic methods (MAM) • The phase-typedistribution (1975) • The versatile Markovian point process (1978) • The M/G/1 paradigm and algorithms based on the G matrix • The GI/M/1 paradigm and the matrix-geometric solution based on the R matrix

  3. Neuts, M.F. (1973) Probability Neuts, M.F. (1981) Matrix-Geometric Solutions in Stochastic Models – An Algorithmic Approach. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. (The green book) • Neuts, M.F. (1989) Structured Stochastic Matrices of M/G/1 type and their Applications. Marcel Dekker, New York. (The yellow book) • Neuts, M.F. (1995) Algorithmic Probability: A Collection of Problems. Chapman and Hall/CRC.

  4. Founding editor of Stochastic Models (1985 – 2001) • On the editorial board of Advances in Applied Probability, Journal of Applied Probability • (1979 – 2004)

  5. Twenty one (21) PhD students and 243+ descendants • Robert McLean (1965); • Jozef Teugels, Mahabanoo Tata; Shun-Zer Chen, Sreekantan Nair, Sidney Resnick; Peter Purdue; David Wolfson, David Heimann; Steve Fuhrmann, Charles Carson; V. Ramaswami; David Lucantoni; Seshavadhani Kumar, S. Chakravarthy; Kathleen Meier; Hariharakrishnan Sitaraman; Y. Chandramouli; Danielle Liu; David Rauschenberg; • Jian-Min Li (1996); • More than 125 scientific papers

  6. Honors • Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America (1969) • The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation award, Germany (1983) • Prize for research excellence (Operations Research Society of America) (1989) • The 21-st honorary member of Omega Rho (1993) • Honorary Member of the Belgian Statistical Society (1994)

  7. Marcel F. Neuts Applied Probability Prize (Best paper in Stochastic Models) Gagan L. Choudhury, Avi Mandelbaum, Martin I. Reiman, Ward Whitt (1998) Soren Asmussen (1999) Benny van Houdt and Chris Blondia (2001) Qiang Ye (2002) F. Baccelli, C. Gloaguen, and S. Zuyev (2003)

  8. Marcel Neuts Lecture Dr. Colm O’Cinneide (2017) Dr. Sidney Resnick (2019)

  9. As a friend and colleague Phoenix, Arizona, 1994

  10. Travel/Social around the world Beijing, 2008

  11. Love Nature and Hiking Tucson, Arizona, 1992

  12. Love photographing Tucson, Arizona, 2007

  13. The Old Time

  14. MAM Conferences 1995 - future

  15. MAM1, Flint, USA, 1995

  16. MAM2, Winnipeg, Canada, 1998

  17. MAM3, Leuven, Belgium, 2000

  18. MAM4, Adelaide, Australia, 2002

  19. MAM5, Pisa, Italy, 2005

  20. MAM6, Beijing, China, 2008

  21. MAM7, New York, USA, 2011

  22. MAM7, New York, USA, 2011

  23. MAM8, Calicut, India, 2014

  24. MAM8, Calicut, India, 2014 Tucson USA

  25. MAM9, Budapest, Hungary, 2016

  26. MAM9, Budapest, Hungary, 2016

  27. MAM10, Tasmania, Australia, 2019

  28. Marcel F. Neuts will be remembered as • A philosopher: The algorithmic way of thinking in computer age • An applied probabilist • A queueing theorist • The pioneer of matrix-analytic methods (MAM)

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