Ryszard Syski
Mathematician, scholar
Born Apr. 8, 1924, Plock, Poland; came to U.S., 1960; son of Zygmunt and Halina (Wisniewska); married Barbara (Mikolajczak); children: Marek, Witold, M. Bozena, Leszek, B. Antoni, A. Mieszko.
Education: engineer, Polish University College, 1951, Diploma of Imperial College, Imperial College, 1952, London (United Kingdom); Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), 1954, Ph.D., 1960, University of London.
Career: senior scientific officer, ATE Company, Ltd., London, 1952-60; research associate, 1960-61, associate prof., 1961-66, prof., 1966 -, director of statistics group, 1962-76, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park; Paul Naor visiting prof., Technion, Haifa (Israel), 1976-77; visiting prof., Technical University of Warsaw (Poland), 1982, 1993, University of Utrecht (Netherlands), 1986; corresponding prof., Polish University Abroad, London, 1959 -.
Author: Introduction to Congestion Theory in Telephone Systems, 1960, 1986; Random Processes - a First Look, 1979, 1989; Passage Times for Markov Chains, 1992; over 100 scientific papers in the area of Markov process, including queuing theory and potential theory; speaker, international conferences, numerous universities in United States and Europe.
Member of: fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics; co-founder, active member, Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (editorial board member, 1972-82, organizing committee chairman, 5th conference, 1975); active member, International Teletraffic Congresses (organizing committee, 1967, 1983, 1991, technical committee, 1990-92); Bernoulli Society; associate member, Society of Polish Technicians - Stowarzyszenie Technikow Polskich (S.T.P.), member, Polish Scientific Society Abroad - Polskie Towarzystwo Naukowe Organizacji (P.T.N.O.), London; Polish Mathematical Society; Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.); Polish National Alliance (P.N.A.).
Honors: Polish Home Army Cross, 1989; medal for contribution to probability theory, Polish Mathematics Society, 1990.
Served with: Polish Home Army - Armia Krajowa (A.K.), corporal ensign, 1942; Warsaw Uprising, 1944; Polish Armed Forces in the West, Italian Campaign, Artillery, 1945-47; Polish Resettlement Corps, United Kingdom, 1947-48.
Affiliation: Roman Catholic.
Languages: Polish, English.
Office: University of Maryland, Mathematics Department, College Park, MD 20742.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.