Erhan Çınlar (born May 28, 1941,

Divriği Divriği (; ) is a town of eleven thousand people in Sivas Province, Turkey, and is the district capital of Divriği District.Sivas Sivas is a city in central Turkey. It is the seat of Sivas Province and Sivas District.İl Beledi ...

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) is a probabilist and

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. He was the Norman J. Sollenberger Professor of the department of

Operations Research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

and

Financial Engineering Financial engineering is a multidisciplinary field involving financial theory, methods of engineering, tools of mathematics and the practice of programming. It has also been defined as the application of technical methods, especially from mathe ...

(ORFE) at Princeton University.

Academic life

He received a B.S. in

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

and a

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and Ph.D. in

Industrial Engineering Industrial engineering (IE) is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, an ...

and Operations Research, all from the

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in 1963, 1964 and 1965, respectively. His dissertation, ''Analysis of Systems of Queues in Parallel'', was supervised by Ralph L. Disney. In 1965, he joined the department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences as an assistant professor at

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

. During 1971–1972, he was a visiting professor in the department of Management Science and Engineering at

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, and became full professor of Operations Research in 1972 at Northwestern. He then joined the department of Civil Engineering and

as a professor at

in 1985.

Research areas

Çinlar is the co-founder (along with Kai-lai Chung and Ronald Getoor) of the seminar on

stochastic process In probability theory and related fields, a stochastic () or random process is a mathematical object usually defined as a family of random variables in a probability space, where the index of the family often has the interpretation of time. Sto ...

es, which is an annual conference on probability topics such as

Markov process In probability theory and statistics, a Markov chain or Markov process is a stochastic process describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on the state attained in the previous event. Informally, ...

es,

Brownian motion Brownian motion is the random motion of particles suspended in a medium (a liquid or a gas). The traditional mathematical formulation of Brownian motion is that of the Wiener process, which is often called Brownian motion, even in mathematical ...

, superprocesses,

stochastic analysis Stochastic calculus is a branch of mathematics that operates on stochastic processes. It allows a consistent theory of integration to be defined for integrals of stochastic processes with respect to stochastic processes. This field was created an ...

, and

mathematical finance Mathematical finance, also known as quantitative finance and financial mathematics, is a field of applied mathematics, concerned with mathematical modeling in the financial field. In general, there exist two separate branches of finance that req ...

Awards

* INFORMS Expository Writing Award * 2003 class of

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s of the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cinlar, Erhan Living people 1941 births Probability theorists Queueing theorists University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni Northwestern University faculty Princeton University faculty 20th-century Turkish mathematicians Turkish operations researchers 20th-century American mathematicians American operations researchers American academics of Turkish descent Turkish emigrants to the United States Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences 21st-century American mathematicians 21st-century Turkish mathematicians