e-mail: balint@math.bme.hu
URL: http://www.math.bme.hu/~balint/
1980: MSc in Physics, University
of Bucharest, Romania
1988: PhD in Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Budapest
1999: DSc
(Mathematics), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
probability
theory, stochastic processes, random walks, limit theorems, statistical physics
(classical and quantum), randomness in space and time
1982-1989: research fellow, Mathematical Institute of
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1989-1991: research associate and temporary lecturer, Department of
Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (on
leave from the Mathematical Institute of the H.A.S.)
1989-1998: senior researcher, Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences
1998-present: professor of mathematics (full), Institute of
Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology
1998-present: head of Department of Stochastics,
Institute of Mathematics, Budapest University of Technology
2005-2009: director, Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
University of Technology
2009-present: head of Graduate School of Mathematics and Computer Science at
Budapest University of Technology
Chief
Editor (2009 - 2011) Electronic Journal of Probability
Associate
Editor (2001 - 2005) Annals of
Probability
Associate
Editor (2003 - present) Annales de l'Institut
Henri Poincaré – Prob. et
Statist.
Associate
Editor (1997 - present) Periodica Mathematica Hungarica
(Only the
international activity is listed here and not the professional service done
within the Hungarian mathematical community.)
Regular
refereeing for all major journals of probability theory and stochastic
processes and occasionally for journals of theoretical physics
Regularly
reviewing grant proposals for some of the major scientific granting funds (e.g.
NSF ESF, ERC, NWO, etc.)
Regularly
reviewing professional job/promotion proposals and applications, at
professorial level (from the last few years US, Canadian, British, German,
Dutch cases come first to my mind)
Young Researcher’s Prize awarded by the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (1987)
Paul Erdős Prize awarded by the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (1994)
Széchenyi Professorship
awarded by the Hungarian Government (1999-2002)
Academic Prize awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2003)
Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Republic, awarded by the President of the
Hungarian Republic (2009)
Szele Tibor Memorial Medal, awarded by the János
Bolyai Mathematical Society (2010)
János Bolyai Mathematical Society (BJMT)
American
Mathematical Society (AMS)
Bernoulli
Society
Institute
of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
1984: Random Fields and Statistical Mechanics, Kőszeg
Hungary (member of the organizing committee)
1991: Statistical Mechanics and Phase Transitions,
Edinburgh
1995: Disordered Systems and Statistical Physics, Budapest
(chairman of the organizing committee)
1998: Random Walks, Budapest (co-chairman of
the organizing committee)
1999: Probability and Physics of Disordered Systems -- First Dutch-Hungarian
Stochastics Workshop, Budapest (co-chairman of
the organizing committee)
2001: Dynamical Systems and Related Fields,
Budapest (co-organizer)
2003: Randomness in Space and Time -- Second Dutch-Hungarian Stochastics Workshop, Budapest (co-chairman of the
organizing committee)
2005: Particle Systems with Several Conservation Laws: Fluctuations
and Hydrodynamics, Oberwolfach Miniworkshop (co-organizer)
2005: Large Scale Behaviour of Interacting
Particle Systems: Fluctuations and Hydrodynamics Budapest (co-organizer)
2006: Randomness and Hyperbolicity in
Dynamical Systems -- in Honour of Domokos
Szász's 65th Birthday, Budapest (co-organizer)
2008: Hydrodynamics and Fluctuations in Interacting Particle Systems
-- in Honour of József Fritz's
65th Birthday, Budapest (co-organizer)
2002-2007: European Science Foundation Program `Random Dynamics of
Spatially Extended Systems (RDSES)' (member of the international steering
committee)
2005: Ninth Brazilian School of Probability, Sao Sebastiao (member of the scientific program committee)
2006: 31st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their
Applications, Paris (member of the scientific program committee)
2007: 32nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their
Applications, Urbana-Champaign (member of the scientific program committee)
2008: Interacting Particle Systems, Statistical Mechanics
and Probability Theory, Institut Henri Poincaré, Centre Émile Borel, Paris, Sept-Dec 2008 (member of the scientific
advisory committee)
2009: Thirteenth Brazilian School of Probability, (member
of the scientific program committee)
2011: Dynamics and
Transport in Disordered Systems, one semester program at The Fields
Institute, Toronto (member of the scientific program committee)
2010-2013: Bernoulli Society Committee for
Conferences on Stochastic Processes and Their
Applications (member)
2010-2015: European Science Foundation Program `Random Geometry of Large
Interacting Systems and Statistical Physics (RGLIS)' (member of the international steering
committee)
2013: 36th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their
Applications, Boulder Colorado (member of the scientific program committee)
1989-1991: Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh,
Department of Mathematics (research associate, temporary lecturer)
1997, 2007,
2010: École Normale Supérieure,
Paris
2001, 2003:
Institut
Henri Poincaré, Paris
1999: Université
de Provence -- Aix Marseille
1985 spring: Landau
Institute and Moscow State University
1986 autumn:
BIBOS Universität
Bielefeld
1995 spring:
CWI
Amsterdam
2002 summer:
IMPA Rio de Janeiro
2009 spring:
Insitut
Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm
1996
August, Chicago, IL Joint
Annual Meeting of the IMS and AAS
1996
August, Edinburgh, UK Random
Polymers, ICMS (two lectures)
1996 October,
Prague, CZ Statistical
Physics School (four lectures)
1997 July,
Budapest, HU Paul Erdős Memorial Conference
1997
October, Göteborg, SE Random
Spatial Structures
1997
November, Oberwolfach, DE Random Polymers and Related Topics, MFO Workshop
1998 April,
Dresden, DE Dynamical Systems and Stat. Phys., Max Planck Institute
1999
January, Tokyo, JP Limit
Theorems of Probability Theory
1999
September, Prague, CZ Statistical
Physics School (four lectures)
2000 July,
Barcelona, ES Third
European Congress of Mathematics
2000
August, Rio de Janeiro, BR First Latin
American Congress of Mathematics
2000
August, Mambucaba RJ, BR Fourth Brazilian School of Probability
2001
February, Vienna, AT Random Walks, Erwin Schrödinger Institute
2001
September, Paris, FR Hydrodynamic
Limits, Institut Henri Poincaré
2002 May,
Trieste, IT Summer
School on Probability, ICTP
2002 June,
Eindhoven, NL Discrete
Probability, EURANDOM
2002
October, Eindhoven, NL Schwerpunkt Workshop, EURANDOM
2003 February, Paris, FR Statistics and Geometry of
Random Growth Processes, Institut Henri Poincaré (three lectures)
2003 March,
Seattle, WA Seminar on
Stochastic Processes, SSP2003
2003
August, Cambridge, UK Random
Growth Processes, Isaac Newton
Institute
2003
October, Dublin, IR Analysis
and Quantum Phys. Dublin Inst.
Adv. Studies
2004
January, Santiago de Chile Percolation
and Particle Systems
2004 April,
Leiden, NL Percolation
and Particle Systems, Lorenz Centre
2004 June,
Firenze, IT NYU Summer
School (five lectures)
2004 June,
Budapest, HU Endre Csáki & Pal Révész Fest -- at
70
2004 June,
Edinburgh, UK Oliver
Penrose Fest -- at 75, ICMS
2004
August, Ubatuba, BR Eighth
Brazilian School of Probability
2004
September, Oberwolfach, DE Large Scale Dynamics, MFO
Workshop
2004
November, Lunteren NL Dutch Stochastics Days 2004 (two lecture)
2005 July, Santa Barbara CA 30th Conference on Stochastic
Processes and their Applications (plenary
lecture)
2006 March,
Vienna AT Discrete
Probability, Erwin Schrödinger
Institute
2006 June,
Bangalore IN
Interacting Particle Systems, Indian
Statistical Institute
2006 July, Lyon
FR 11th Conference
on Hyperbolic PDEs
2006
September, Oosterend NL Particle Systems Far From Equilibrium
2007
February: Marseille FR Random
Walks on Groups, CIRM Luminy
2007 June,
Budapest HU Miklós Csörgő Fest
-- at 75
2007 July,
Durham GB Advances in Random Walks, London Math. Soc. Meeting
2007 July,
Dresden DE Driven
Systems Far From Equilibrium, Max
Planck Inst.
2007
August, Reykjavik IS Random
Trees
2007 August,
Oberwolfach DE Interacting
Particle Systems, MFO Workshop
2007
October, Fukuoka JP Large Scale Interacting Systems
2007
December, Kolkata IN 50
Years Jubilee Meeting of the Indian Statistical Inst.
2008 May, Cluj-Kolozsvar, RO Stochastic Methods in Complex Systems
2008 July,
Singapore SG 7th
World Congress in Probability and
Math. Statistics
2008
October, Paris FR Particle
systems and Percolation, Institut Henri Poincaré
2008
November, Vienna AT Structural
Probability, Erwin Schrödinger Institute
2008
December, Bangalore IN Reinforced
Random Walks and RWRE, Indian
Stat. Inst.
2009
January, Haifa IL Technion-BME Joint Probability Workshop
2009
May, Montreal CA Random Spatial Processes, Centre de Recherche Math.
2009
May, Montreal CA Interacting Particle Systems, Centre de Recherche Math.
2009 August, Chorin,
DE Berlin-Zürich Summer School
on Stochastic Models of Complex Systems (5x2 lectures)
2009
November, Budapest HU Endre Csáki and Pál Révész Fest -- at 75
2009
November, Coventry UK Roman Kotecky Fest
-- at 60
2009
December, Paris FR Above the Critical Dimension, Institut Henri Poincaré
2009
December, Eindhoven NL Dynamic Random Environments, EURANDOM
2010
January, Paris FR Inhomogeneous Random Systems, Institut Henri Poincaré
2010 May,
Marseille FR RWRE
and Reinforced RW, CIRM Luminy
2010 September, Osaka JP 34th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications
2010
September, Tokyo JP Large Scale
Interacting Particle Systems
2010 September, Bucharest RO Second
Congress of the Roumanian Scientific Diaspora
2010 October, Berlin DE Conference
for Erwin Bolthausen at 65
2010 November, Oberwolfach
DE Large
Scale Interacting Systems, MFO Workshop
2010 December,
Marseille FR Self-Intersection Local Times, CIRM Luminy
2010 December, Eindhoven NL ESF
Conference on Combinatorics and Analysis in Spatial Probability
2011 January, Abu Dhabi, UAE Probability
Theory, Statistical Physics and Applications, NYU Abu Dhabi Campus
Inaugural Conference
2011 February, Toronto CD Interacting Processes in Random Environments, The
Fields Institute, Toronto
2011 April, Lyon FR Séminaire Hypatie Lyon-Marseille, Univ. Lyon
2011 April, Oxford UK UK Easter Probability Meeting, Univ. Oxford
2011 September, Prague CZ Prague School on Mathematitical Physics (course)
cca. 40 invited seminar and colloquium lectures at
the following university departments and research institutes:
CWI
Amsterdam; Tel Aviv University; The Hebrew University Jerusalem; École Normale Supérieure
Paris; Weierstrass Institute Berlin; Université de Provence Aix Marseille; Universidade de Sao Paulo; University of Bristol; IMPA Rio de Janeiro; Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris; MIT;
University of British Columbia; University
of Washington Seattle; Oxford University; Universität
Zürich & ETH; University of Edinburgh; München-Erlangen Stochastics Day; Max Planck
Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Leipzig; Chalmers University of Technology Göteborg; University
of Toronto & The Fields Institute; Université
Paris-Sud Orsay; University
of Cambridge; Indian Statistical Institute New Delhi; KTH Stockholm; Mittag-Leffler Institute Stockholm; City University of NewYork, Graduate Center;
University of Colorado at Boulder; University of Wisconsin at Madison; Ludwig-Maximilian
Universität München; Universität Wien; Université Lyon;