Bálint Tóth#
| Membership Number: | 4252 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.math.bme.hu/~balint |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - present Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (external member, part time)
- 2012 - present University of Bristol, School of Mathematics; Professor - Chair of Probability
- 1998 - present Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Institute of Mathematics; Professor
- 1981 - 1998 Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Researcher (from 1991 senior researcher)
- 1998-2012 Head of Department of Stochastics, TU Budapest
- 2005-2009 Director of Institute of Mathematics, TU Budapest
- 2009-2012 Head of Garduate School of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Budapest
Fields of Scholarship
- Stochastic processes
- Randomness in space and time
- Probability theory
- Random walks, interacting particle systems
- Fluctuations, scaling limits
- Statistical physics (classical and quantum)
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Plenary speaker at the SPA Conference of the Bernoulli Society (Buenos Aires)
- 2010 Szele Tibor Memorial Medal [awarded by the János Bolyai Mathematical Society (= Hungarian Math. Soc.)]
- 2009 Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Republic [awarded by the President of the Hungarian Republic]
- 2005 Plenary speaker at the SPA Conference of the Bernoulli Society (Santa Barbara CA)
- 2003 Academy Prize [awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences]
- 1994 Paul Erdős Prize [awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences]
- 1987 Young Researcher’s Prize [awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences]
