Aad van der VaartAad van der Vaart is Professor of Stochastics at Universiteit Leiden. He is the author of several books and lecture notes in topics ranging from asymptotic statistics to genetics and finance, and many research papers in statistics and its application. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, former president of Netherlands Statistical Society, and a recipient of the Spinoza Prize of the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research. Read More Read Less