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Stanislav Volkov's research focuses on discrete probability, history-dependent random walks, and percolation theory.

An example of a typical problem is the following.

Consider a random walk on integers, which starts at zero,  and steps right or left at discrete times t=0,1,2,... The walk is symmetric, i.e. it goes left or right with equal probability, and the size of the step is the same in either direction. Assume that this size at time t is some positive integer at. In case at=1 for all t, this is the classical random walk which was shown to be recurrent (i.e. returns infinitely often to the origin) by George Pólya in 1921. But what if at are not all the same? The answer turns out to be non-trivial even in a fairly "natural" case at=t.

 

Professional work

Stanislav Volkov holds a Diploma and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Moscow State University, alongside an M.A. and M.Sc. in Economics from the New Economic School in Russia and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA.

He started as a postdoctoral researcher at the Fields Institute in Canada and later in EURANDOM in the Netherlands, before securing a permanent position at the University of Bristol in the UK, where he worked for many years. Since 2012, he has been a Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Lund University.

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