CALL FOR PAPERS, Workshop on the Theory on Belief Functions, Brest, France, April 1-2, 2010

GTP2010: Third Workshop on Game-Theoretic Probability and Related Topics, 21-23 June 2010, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Glenn Shafer is Board of Governors Professor at the Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick.  He is also Professor in the Computer Learning Research Centre, Royal Holloway College, University of London.

Glenn works with doctoral students at both Rutgers and Royal Holloway.  See the description of his work with doctoral students for details and links to information on applying to the doctoral programs at the two institutions.

Glenn also serves as faculty director of the doctoral program at the Rutgers Business School.  This program, which has many majors, trains students for careers as business school professors – an opportunity often overlooked by academically oriented students completing bachelor's and master's degrees in the mathematical and social sciences; see the program's frequently asked questions.

Glenn’s collaboration with colleagues at Royal Holloway has produced two books in recent years, Probability and Finance: It’s Only a Game, with Vladimir Vovk, and Algorithmic Learning Theory, with Vladimir Vovk and Alex Gammerman.

Glenn spent his childhood on a farm near Caney, Kansas. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from Princeton University in 1973.  After teaching at Princeton for three years, he returned to Kansas, where he taught in the mathematics department and the business school.  He moved to Rutgers in 1992. In 2002, he and his wife
Nell Painter, distinguished professor emerita of history at Princeton University, moved from Princeton to Newark, New Jersey's largest and most vibrant city.

In a recent ceremony[Video-Low][Video-High] in Prague, Glenn and his colleague Arthur Dempster were made honorary doctors in economics (doctor oeconomiae honoris causa) by the Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze (University of Economics, Prague).  The work for which this honored was bestowed, the Dempster-Shafer theory and other contributions to auditing and finance, is explained in the university's press release and in Glenn's talk at the ceremony.