Greg Lawler

Greg Lawler
Born (1955-07-14) July 14, 1955 (age 69)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Virginia
Princeton University
AwardsGeorge Pólya Prize (2006)
Wolf Prize (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Cornell University
Duke University
Doctoral advisorEdward Nelson

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]

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

He 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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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)
  4. ^ Greg Lawler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ "Gregory F. Lawler, George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Mathematics, Statistics, and the College". www.stat.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  6. ^ Wolf Prize 2019 - Jerusalem Post
  7. ^ Wolf Prize for Greg Lawler and Jean-François Le Gall, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2019-02-19, retrieved 2022-08-01
  8. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.