Name: Aurel SPÃTARU

Address: Centre for Mathematical Statistics, Casa Academiei Romane, Calea 13 Septembrie nr. 13, RO-76100, Bucharest 5, Romania

Date and Place of Birth: June 22, 1946, Runcu, Romania

Marital Status: Married, one son.

Education:

• June 1964 - Graduated from College;
• July 1970 - M.A. (Mathematics), Bucharest University;
• October 1976 - Ph.D. (Probability), Romanian Academy, Thesis: Stochastic independence of the digits of an f-expansion;

Brief Chronology of Employment:

• 1970-1974 Mathematician, Centre for Mathematical Statistics;
• 1973-1974 Assistant Professor, Mathematics Dept. University of Bucharest;
• 1974-1976 Research worker, Centre for Mathematical Statistics;
• 1975-1978 Assistant Professor, Mathematics Dept. Polytechnical University of Bucharest;
• 1976-1990 Research worker, rank III, Centre for Mathematical Statistics;
• 1990-1995 Research worker, rank II, Centre for Mathematical Statistics;
• 1995-present Research worker, rank I, Centre for Mathematical Statistics.

Distinctions:

• 1978 - Awarded prize of the Romanian Academy for contributions in probabilistic number theory;
• 1990 - Awarded prize of the Romanian Academy for contributions in the theory of branching processes.

Short visits (2 up 3 weeks) abroad under the exchange agreements of the Romanian Academy: former Chechoslovakia (1972, 1977, 1982), former USSR (1973, 1976, 1981), Poland (1983), Austria (1984, 1994), Sweden (1997) Hungary (1999).

Lectures delivered at the universities of: Vilnius (1976), Sankt Petersburg (1976), Prague (1977), Salzburg (1984, 1994), Uppsala (1997), Göteborg (1997), Stockholm (1997), Graz (1998).