Gregory Francis Lawler (born July 14, 1955) is an American mathematician working in probability theory and best known for his work since 2000 on the Schramm–Loewner evolution.[1][2][3]
Greg Lawler | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 14, 1955 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia Princeton University |
| Awards | George Pólya Prize (2006) Wolf Prize (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago Cornell University Duke University |
| Doctoral advisor | Edward Nelson |
He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1979 under the supervision of Edward Nelson.[4] He was on the faculty of Duke University from 1979 to 2001, of Cornell University from 2001 to 2006, and since 2006 is at the University of Chicago.[5]
Awards and honors
editHe received the 2006 SIAM George Pólya Prize with Oded Schramm and Wendelin Werner.
In 2019 he received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.[6][7]
Lawler is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (since 2013) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2005). Since 2012, he has been a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [8] He gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing (2002) and a plenary lecture at the ICM in Rio de Janeiro (2018).
References
edit- ^ Lawler, Gregory F.; Schramm, Oded; Werner, Wendelin (2001). "The Dimension of the Planar Brownian Frontier is 4/3". Mathematical Research Letters. 8 (4): 401–411. arXiv:math/0010165. doi:10.4310/mrl.2001.v8.n4.a1. ISSN 1073-2780.
- ^ Werner, Wendelin; Schramm, Oded; Lawler, Gregory F. (January 2004). "Conformal invariance of planar loop-erased random walks and uniform spanning trees". The Annals of Probability. 32 (1B): 939–995. arXiv:math/0112234. doi:10.1214/aop/1079021469. ISSN 0091-1798.
- ^ Random walks and geometry : proceedings of a workshop at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, June 18-July 13, 2001. Kaimanovich, Vadim A., Schmidt, Klaus, 1943-, Woess, Wolfgang, 1954-. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 2004. ISBN 9783110198089. OCLC 232160048.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Greg Lawler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Gregory F. Lawler, George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Mathematics, Statistics, and the College". www.stat.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
- ^ Wolf Prize 2019 - Jerusalem Post
- ^ Wolf Prize for Greg Lawler and Jean-François Le Gall, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2019-02-19, retrieved 2022-08-01
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.
External links
edit- Personal home page
- "Conformally invariant measures on paths and loops - Gregory Lawler - ICM2018". YouTube. 19 September 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. (Plenary Lecture 5)