Fred M. Hoppe is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at
McMaster University.
He studied physics as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, then mathematics as a graduate student at both the
Weizmann Institute of Science and at Princeton
University,
receiving a Ph.D. at the latter. He spent a year at
Cornell University as a Visiting Scholar and then joined
The
University of Michigan (Go Blue!) in
Ann Arbor
where he became a tenured professor. He returned to his beloved Canada and Ontario, whose heart the Mulroney and Harris
governments have succeeded in tearing out (apologies to the late Phil Ochs), and
joined McMaster's faculty, serving a term as Associate Chair of Mathematics
and Statistics.
Professor Fred's scientific research interests are in probability and statistics, primarily in applications of stochastic processes to problems in genetics, medicine, and physics. He is the author of numerous research publications in branching processes, Bonferroni inequalities, population genetics, and Dirichlet processes, and has published three books, including two on the use of Excel in statistics which are used at many universities and colleges throughout North America. He has held research grants in the United States from the National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Department of Energy, and the Alfred Sloan Foundation, and in Canada from Employment and Immigration Canada, Canada Council, Canadian Mathematics Congress, National Research Council, Medical Research Council, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. He has travelled extensively around the world as a lecturer, and has given presentations and courses at various universities in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Germany. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications and an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, and he serves as associate editor of Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability.
During the academic year 1998-1999 Professor Fred was in residence at the Fields Institute For Research in Mathematical Sciences in Toronto where he gave a graduate minicourse on Probabilistic Models in Population Genetics.
Professor Fred takes a hobby interest in the statistics of lotteries and he has been referenced in the popular media in Maclean's, IE:Money, and L'actualities. He was profiled in The Hamilton Spectator on February 5, 1997 in an article Professor dashes dreams with anti-lottery course". He refuses to purchase lottery tickets, however.
Professor Fred lives near the Bruce Trail in Dundas, Ontario, beneath the Niagara Escarpment, with his wife Marla and children Daniel and Tamara.
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