Ryszard Syski

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name = Ryszard Syski

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birth_date = April 8, 1924
birth_place = Płock, Poland
death_date = June 11, 2007 (age 83)
death_place = Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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field = Queueing theory
work_institutions = University of Maryland College Park
alma_mater = Polish University Abroad
University of London
University of Maryland College Park
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doctoral_students = Richard Shachtman
Louis Blake
Peeter Kolmus
Harry Bushar
David Harrington
Julie Rosen
Haiyan Cai
Ning Liu
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Ryszard Syski (April 8, 1924 in Płock, Poland - June 11, 2007 in Silver Spring, Maryland) was a Polish-American mathematician whose research was in queueing theory. [ [http://www.hindawi.com/GetArticle.aspx?doi=10.1155/S1048953398000173 Editorial] of special issue, devoted to Syski, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis Volume 11 (1998), Issue 3, Pages 219-220]

During World War II he was in the Armia Krajowa with his parents, partaking in the Warsaw uprising, being imprisoned in Lamsdorf, Silesia and Bavaria (1944), and joining the Polish Second Corps for fights in Italy (1945).

His studies in mathematics started in London, at the Polish University Abroad (1946). Hejoined "Automatic Telephone and Electric Co." in London (1952).He got his B.Sc. (1954) and Ph.D. (1961) at University of London, on the dissertation"Stochastic Process in Banach space and its Applications to Congestion Theory".

Encouraged by Thomas L. Saaty he moved to College Park, Maryland, joining the mathematics faculty of University of Maryland (1961-1999), founded the journal Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (1973) and was fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Syski wrote over forty journal articles, often collaborating with notables such as
Félix Pollaczek,
Lajos Takács,
Julian Keilson and
Wim Cohen. Syski died from a fall. [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/05/AR2007070501913_pf.html obituary] in the Washington Post (July 6, 2007)]

Books

*"Introduction to congestion theory in telephone systems" (North-Holland, 1960)
*"Passage times for Markov chains" (1992)

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