Ron Doney | |
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| Born | Ronald Arthur Doney |
| Alma mater | Durham University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Manchester |
| Thesis | Some problems on random walks (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | G. E. H. Reuter |
Ronald Arthur Doney is a British mathematician. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Manchester and a specialist in probability theory. [1]
Doney completed his PhD at Durham University in 1964 under the supervision of G. E. H. Reuter. [2] He worked briefly at the University of East Anglia, before joining Imperial College London as a lecturer in 1965. In 1970, he moved to the University of Manchester, where he spent the remainder of his academic career. [3]
In the mid-1970s, Doney published a series of papers on the growth properties of general branching processes, and often collaborated with Nicholas Bingham. [3] From 1977 onward, he returned primarily to the study of random walks. [3]
During the 1990s, he had a 'relatively intense' collaboration with French probabilist Jean Bertoin. This emerged from Bertoin noticing Doney’s 1991 paper on Lévy processes in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society . They eventually co-authored seven papers on conditioned random walks, six of which appeared between 1994 and 1997. [3]