Person

Cohn, Harry I. (1940 - 2021)

Born
27 July 1940
Bucharest, Romania
Died
7 May 2021
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Mathematician and University Administrator

Summary

Harry Cohn was a mathematician noted for his expertise in probability theory and random processes, including branching processes and products of random matrices with connections to ergodic properties. He was particularly noted for his significant contributions to the theory of Markov chains, non-homogenous Markov chains and simulated annealing. After 12 years lecturing in mathematics in Romania and Israel, Cohn was appointed Lecturer at the Australian National University in 1975. He was Reader in Mathematics at the University of Melbourne from 1978 until his retirement in 2003.

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Chronology

1963 - 1970
Career position - Lecturer, Institute of Mathematics, Romanian Academy of Sciences
1966
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Bucharest, Romania
1970 - 1974
Career position - Lecturer, Technicon - Israel institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
1974 - 1975
Career position - Lecturer, Haifa University, Israel
1975 - 1978
Career position - Lecturer, Australian National University
1978 - 2003
Career position - Reader in Mathematics, University of Melbourne
1988 - 2021
Award - Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
1989 - 1992
Career position - Head, Department of Mathematics, University of Melbourne
2003
Life event - Retired

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Helen Cohn

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