Greg Lawler
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Gregory Francis Lawler is an American mathematician
working in probability theory
and best known for his work since 2000 on the Schramm-Loewner evolution.
He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1979 under the supervision of Edward Nelson
. 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
.
He received the 2006 SIAM George Pólya Prize
with Oded Schramm
and Wendelin Werner
.
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
working in probability theory
Probability theory
Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with analysis of random phenomena. The central objects of probability theory are random variables, stochastic processes, and events: mathematical abstractions of non-deterministic events or measured quantities that may either be single...
and best known for his work since 2000 on the Schramm-Loewner evolution.
He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1979 under the supervision of Edward Nelson
Edward Nelson
Edward Nelson is a professor in the Mathematics Department at Princeton University. He is known for his work on mathematical physics and mathematical logic...
. He was on the faculty of Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
from 1979 to 2001, of Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
from 2001 to 2006, and since 2006 is at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
.
He received the 2006 SIAM George Pólya Prize
Pólya Prize (SIAM)
The Pólya Prize is a prize in mathematics, awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. First given in 1969, the prize is named after Hungarian mathematician George Pólya...
with Oded Schramm
Oded Schramm
Oded Schramm was an Israeli-American mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory.-Biography:...
and Wendelin Werner
Wendelin Werner
Wendelin Werner is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain he received the...
.