W. K. Hastings

Wilfred Keith Hastings (July 21, 1930 – May 13, 2016

While at the University of Toronto, Hastings also supervised his one Ph.D. student, Peter Peskun (now at York University), whose 1970 dissertation "The Choice Of Transition Matrix In Monte Carlo Sampling Methods Using Markov Chains" developed the Peskun ordering on Markov chain kernels.

In 1971, Hastings joined the department of mathematics at the University of Victoria (in British Columbia, on the west coast of Canada) as an associate professor, and was granted tenure there in 1974. He taught at Victoria for 21 years, usually teaching six one-semester courses per year. He did not supervise any more Ph.D. students, but he did supervise two M.Sc. students, and serve on the committees of four Ph.D. and two M.Sc. students. He held NSERC research grants from 1969 to 1980.

Hastings retired from the University of Victoria in 1992.