Zhen-Qing Chen awarded the 2019 Itô Prize

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From the Elsevier website

We are delighted to announce the 2019 Itô Prize winners!

Congratulations to Professor Zhen-Qing Chen (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) and Professor Masatoshi Fukushima (Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan), for their paper:

Stochastic Komatsu-Loewner evolution and BMD domain constant Stochastic Processes and Applications, Volume 128 (2018), 545-594.

The Itô Prize honors the memory and celebrates the legacy of Professor Kiyosi Itô and his vast and seminal contributions to probability theory. It is awarded every two years and recognizes significant contributions to the advancement of the theory or applications of stochastic processes over the corresponding period.

The 2019 winning article was chosen by a selection committee consisting of senior members of the probability community and representing wide geographical and specialization diversity. The award will be presented at the 41st Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA 2019) in Evanston, Illinois, USA from 8 to 12 July 2019.

The award consists of a certificate and a monetary award of US$5000.

The authors will give a plenary talk at the SPA 2019 Conference.

The paper is freely available to access until the end of 2019 via ScienceDirect.

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