Eugene Seneta

Eugene Seneta is Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, known for his work inprobability and non-negative matrices, applications and history. He is known for the variance gamma model in financial mathematics (the Madan-Seneta process). He was Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney from 1979 until retirement, and an Elected Fellow since 1985 of the Australian Academy of Science. In 2007 Seneta was awarded the Hannan Medal in Statistical Scienceby the Australian Academy of Science, for his seminal work in probability and statistics; for his work connected with branching processes, history of probability and statistics, and many other areas.