Bálint Tόth (born 1955, Cluj/Kolozsvár/Klausenburg) is a Hungarian mathematician whose work concerns

probability theory Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expressing it through a set ...

, stochastic process and probabilistic aspects of

mathematical physics Mathematical physics refers to the development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The '' Journal of Mathematical Physics'' defines the field as "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the developme ...

. He obtained PhD in 1988 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, worked as senior researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the HAS and as professor of mathematics at TU Budapest. He holds the Chair of Probability at the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

and is a research professor at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest. He has worked on microscopic models of

Brownian motion Brownian motion, or pedesis (from grc, πήδησις "leaping"), is the random motion of particles suspended in a medium (a liquid or a gas). This pattern of motion typically consists of random fluctuations in a particle's position insi ...

, quantum spin systems, limit theorems for

random walk In mathematics, a random walk is a random process that describes a path that consists of a succession of random steps on some mathematical space. An elementary example of a random walk is the random walk on the integer number line \mathbb Z ...

s with long memory, and non-conventional stochastic processes, hydrodynamic limits, etc. In particular, Tόth contributed to the theory of self-interacting motions, that is, motions that are "reinforced", "self-avoiding" or "self-repellent". In collaboration with Wendelin Werner he constructed the random geometric object later called the Brownian web. Tóth was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians ICM-2018 (Rio de Janeiro), and of the

European Congress of Mathematics The European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) is the second largest international conference of the mathematics community, after the International Congresses of Mathematicians (ICM). The ECM are held every four years and are timed precisely betwe ...

ECM-2000 (Barcelona). He was plenary speaker at three Conferences on Stochastic Processes and their Applications SPA-2005 (Santa Barbara), SPA-2014 (Buenos Aires), and IMS Medallion Lecturer at SPA-2022 (Wuhan). He is a member of

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...

and a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Tóth was Editor-in-Chief of the journals

Electronic Journal of Probability The ''Electronic Journal of Probability'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society. It covers all aspects of probability theory and the current editor-in-chief ...

(2009-2011) and

Annals of Applied Probability '' The Annals of Applied Probability'' is a leading peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, which is the main international society for researchers in probability and statistics. The journal was es ...

(2016-2018). Currently he is co-Editor-in-Chief (jointly with

Fabio Toninelli Fabio Toninelli (born 1975) is an Italian mathematician who works in probability theory, stochastic processes and probabilistic aspects of mathematical physics. Education He obtained his PhD in physics, in 2003, from Scuola Normale Superiore di ...

) of

Probability Theory and Related Fields '' Probability Theory and Related Fields'' is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by Springer. Established in 1962, it was originally named ''Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und verwandte Gebiete'', with the English replacin ...

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