Steven Evans, Distiinguished Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Mathematics at UC Berkeley, is serving as a Research Professor in the Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures program at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) in Spring 2025. A leading expert in stochastic processes, Evans' work spans population genetics and biodemography and will be collaborating with international researchers on two major projects at SLMath.
Formerly the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), the SLMath Institute is a world-renowned mathematical research institute located in the Berkeley Hills, just above campus. Each semester, SLMath hosts roughly 85 mathematicians and postdoctoral research fellows and holds programs and workshops that draw approximately 2,000 visits by mathematical scientists throughout the year. The institute was founded in 1982 by three Berkeley professors, Shiing-Shen Chern, Calvin Moore, and Isadore M. Singer, and has maintained close ties to UC Berkeley.