Dr. R.J. Tomkins
Vice-President (Administration)
Emeritus and
Adjunct Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Parkway,
Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2 Canada
Telephone: (306) 584-3708
Fax: (306) 585-4020
E-mail:
Education:
Ph.D. 1970 (Purdue); MS 1967
(Purdue), B.A. Honours 1966
(Saskatchewan),
B.A. 1965 (Saskatchewan)
Field of Research:
Probability
theory, particularly limit theorems for discrete sequences.
Stability theorems for large order statistics and laws of
iterated logarithm for sums of independent random variables and martingales.
Recent Publications:
- Michael
Z.F. Li and R. J. Tomkins (2004). Stability of Maxima of Random
Variables with Multidimensional Indices. Extremes, 7, 135-147.
- R.J.
Tomkins (2004).
Criteria for the Almost Sure Stability of Weighted Maxima of
Bounded i.i.d. Random Variables. Fields
Institute Communications, 44, 265-270.
- Deli
Li and R.J. Tomkins (2003). The
Law of the Iterated Logarithm for Weighted Sums of Independent Random
Variables. Journal of Theoretical Probability, 16,
519-542.
- R.
J. Tomkins (2002). Relative
Stability of Weighted Maxima of Bounded i.i.d.
Random Variables. In Recent Advances in Statistical Methods:
Proceedings of the Statistics 2001 Canada Conference.
Imperial
College Press, 324-329.
- R.J.
Tomkins (2002).
Properties and Applications
of Measurable Covers and Cores. Pakistan Journal of Statistics, 18, 275-283.