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his PhD from MIT in 1963. He is Professor Emeritus and
Distinguished Research Professor at Carleton University. He
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Institute
of Mathematical Statistics, the International Statistical
Institute, the Royal Society (London), and the American
Mathematical Society. He received a Gold Medal from the
Statistical Society of Canada in 1991, a Max Planck Award
for International Co-operation in 1996, the CRM-Fields prize
in 2004, and the Dr. Sci. from McGill University in 2005. Don
was the third Director of the Fields Institute (1996–2000).
Ron Dembo spent most of his re