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CONTRIBUTORS 161 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