Marcel F Neuts 1935 2014 Born in Belgium

Marcel F. Neuts (1935 -2014) • Born in Belgium in 1935 • Masters, Stanford, 1958– 59 • Ph. D, Stanford, 1959– 61 (Supervisor: Samuel Karlin) • Purdue University, 1962– 76 • University of Delaware, 1976– 85 • University of Arizona, 1985– 96

Major Achievements Matrix-analytic methods (MAM) • The phase-type distribution (1975) • The versatile Markovian point process (1978) • The M/G/1 paradigm and algorithms based on the G matrix • The GI/M/1 paradigm and the matrix-geometric solution based on the R matrix

Neuts, M. F. (1973) Probability Neuts, M. F. (1989) Structured Stochastic Matrices of M/G/1 type and their Applications. Marcel Dekker, New York. (The yellow book) Neuts, M. F. (1981) Matrix. Geometric Solutions in Stochastic Models – An Algorithmic Approach. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. (The green book) Neuts, M. F. (1995) Algorithmic Probability: A Collection of Problems. Chapman and Hall/CRC.

Founding editor of Stochastic Models (1985 – 2001) On the editorial board of Advances in Applied Probability, Journal of Applied Probability (1979 – 2004)

• Twenty one (21) Ph. D students and 243+ descendants Robert Mc. Lean (1965); Jozef Teugels, Mahabanoo Tata; Shun-Zer Chen, Sreekantan Nair, Sidney Resnick; Peter Purdue; David Wolfson, David Heimann; Steve Fuhrmann, Charles Carson; V. Ramaswami; David Lucantoni; Seshavadhani Kumar, S. Chakravarthy; Kathleen Meier; Hariharakrishnan Sitaraman; Y. Chandramouli; Danielle Liu; David Rauschenberg; Jian-Min Li (1996); • More than 125 scientific papers

Honors • Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America (1969) • The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation award, Germany (1983) • Prize for research excellence (Operations Research Society of America) (1989) • The 21 -st honorary member of Omega Rho (1993) • Honorary Member of the Belgian Statistical Society (1994)

Marcel F. Neuts Applied Probability Prize (Best paper in Stochastic Models) Gagan L. Choudhury, Avi Mandelbaum, Martin I. Reiman, Ward Whitt (1998) Soren Asmussen (1999) Benny van Houdt and Chris Blondia (2001) Qiang Ye (2002) F. Baccelli, C. Gloaguen, and S. Zuyev (2003)

Marcel Neuts Lecture Dr. Colm O’Cinneide (2017) Dr. Sidney Resnick (2019)

As a friend and colleague Phoenix, Arizona, 1994

Travel/Social around the world Beijing, 2008

Love Nature and Hiking Tucson, Arizona, 1992

Love photographing Tucson, Arizona, 2007

The Old Time

MAM Conferences 1995 - future

MAM 1, Flint, USA, 1995

MAM 2, Winnipeg, Canada, 1998

MAM 3, Leuven, Belgium, 2000

MAM 4, Adelaide, Australia, 2002

MAM 5, Pisa, Italy, 2005

MAM 6, Beijing, China, 2008

MAM 7, New York, USA, 2011

MAM 8, Calicut, India, 2014

MAM 8, Calicut, India, 2014 Tucson USA

MAM 9, Budapest, Hungary, 2016

MAM 10, Tasmania, Australia, 2019

Marcel F. Neuts will be remembered as • A philosopher: The algorithmic way of thinking in computer age • An applied probabilist • A queueing theorist • The pioneer of matrixanalytic methods (MAM)