Rate My Professor Simeon Berman

Simeon M. Berman is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in 1961 from Columbia University, advised by Ronald Pyke, with a dissertation titled 'Limiting Distribution of the Maximum Term in Sequences of Dependent Random Variables,' classified under Mathematics Subject Classification 60: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. Prior to his extensive tenure at NYU, Berman was affiliated with Columbia University, where he supervised Ph.D. students, including James Pickands III in 1965. He joined NYU around 1965, marking over 40 years of service by 2005, contributing significantly to the Department of Mathematics.

Berman’s research focuses on sojourns and extremes of stochastic processes, particularly Gaussian processes. He authored the seminal book 'Sojourns and Extremes of Stochastic Processes,' published in 1992 by Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole Advanced Books & Software. His publications appear in prestigious journals such as the Annals of Probability and Advances in Applied Probability. Berman received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics since 1978. His work on limiting distributions, excursions above high barriers, and harmonic analysis of local times has influenced extreme value theory and the study of stationary Gaussian processes. As a university teacher and probability theorist, Berman’s career exemplifies dedication to advancing mathematical probability at leading institutions.