Undergraduate university education at Cambridge: at Trinity Hall (1970-73): Mathematical Tripos.
Postgraduate university education at Oxford: at the Mathematical Institute and Wolfson College (1973-76)
1974 M.Sc: Main subject: Statistics. Subsidiary subjects: Probability, Functional Analysis.
1976 D.Phil: Asymptotic properties of the branching random walk
Subsequent career:
Lecturer, University of Sheffield, 1976-1992
Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield, 1993-1994
Professor,
Married since 1980, with five children and two grandchildren
Here is a picture of the family: January 2012. Here is another less recent picture of my wife and I and the children: August 2006
Two of my children have web pages: John S. Biggins Physicist; Mark Biggins Musician. Two others have a baking blog.
I was ordained as a (permanent) deacon for the Catholic Diocese of Hallam in 2009 and am based in The Parish of St William of York.
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