Adrianus Willem "Aad" van der Vaart (born 12 July 1959)[1] is a Dutch professor of Stochastics at the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics at Delft University of Technology.
Aad van der Vaart | |
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| Born | July 12, 1959 |
| Education | Leiden University |
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| Institutions | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Leiden University Delft University of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Willem van Zwet |
Education and career edit
Van der Vaart was born in Vlaardingen. He earned his PhD at Leiden University in 1987 with a thesis titled: "Statistical estimation in large parameter spaces" under the supervision of Willem van Zwet.[1] He became a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 1997.[2] He was appointed as professor of Stochastics at Leiden University in 2012.[1] In 2021 he moved to the Technical University of Delft.[3]
Honours edit
Van der Vaart was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.[4] In 2010 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad, India.[5] He was the recipient of a European Research Council Advanced Grant in 2012.[6] In 2015 he was one of four winners of the Dutch Spinoza Prize and received a 2.5 million euro grant.[7] He was awarded the prize for his research on mathematical models that help track genes for cancer research.[8] On being awarded the prize Van der Vaart stated that 2.5 million euro was too much, claiming he could have 35 postdoctoral and Ph.D. students work with the grant.[9]
In June 2019 van der Vaart was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.[2]
Bibliography edit
- van der Vaart, A. W.; Wellner, Jon A. (1996). Weak convergence and empirical processes. New York: Springer. ISBN 0-387-94640-3. OCLC 33664331.
- van der Vaart, A. W. (1998-10-13). Asymptotic Statistics (1 ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511802256. ISBN 978-0-511-80225-6.
- Bolthausen, Erwin; Perkins, Edwin Arend; van der Vaart, A. W. (2002). Bernard, P. (ed.). Lectures on probability theory and statistics : Ecole d'Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXIX - 1999. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-47944-4. OCLC 50621190.
- Bijma, Fetsje; Jonker, Marianne; van der Vaart, A. W.; Erné, Reinie (2017). Introduction to mathematical statistics. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-90-485-3611-5. OCLC 999636489.
- Ghosal, Subhashis; van der Vaart, A. W. (2017). Fundamentals of nonparametric Bayesian inference. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87826-5. OCLC 965754194.
References edit
- ^ a b c "Adrianus Willem van der Vaart (Aad)" (in Dutch). Leiden University. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016.
- ^ a b "Statistician Aad van der Vaart Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion". Leiden University. 17 June 2019.
- ^ "Aad van der Vaart".
- ^ "Aad van der Vaart". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 11 August 2020.
- ^ Van der Vaart, Aad (2010). "Bayesian Regularization". In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 (ICM 2010) (In 4 Volumes) Vol. I: Plenary Lectures and Ceremonies Vols. II–IV: Invited Lectures. pp. 2370–2385. doi:10.1142/9789814324359_0150. ISBN 978-981-4324-30-4.
- ^ Arnout Jaspers (26 October 2012). "Europese subsidie voor statistiek in grote, rommelige datasets" (in Dutch). Leiden University. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ "NWO-Spinozapremies voor René Janssen, Birgit Meyer, Aad van der Vaart en Cisca Wijmenga" (in Dutch). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "Spinozapremie voor statisticus Aad van der Vaart van Universiteit Leiden" (in Dutch). Omroep West. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ^ "Spinozapremie 2015 voor vier wetenschappers" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
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