Nationality French Role Mathematician Name Wendelin Werner | Institutions ETH Zurich Fields Mathematics | |
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Born 23 September 1968 (age 55)
Cologne, West Germany ( 1968-09-23 ) Alma mater Ecole Normale Superieure
Universite Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Books Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics: Ecole D'ete de Probabilites de Saint-Flour XXXII-2002 Education Ecole Normale Superieure, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University Awards Fields Medal, Fermat Prize, Loeve Prize, George Polya Prize, Rollo Davidson Prize Notable awards Fields Medal, George Polya Prize, Loeve Prize Similar People Oded Schramm, Greg Lawler, Jean‑Francois Le Gall, John Charles Fields, William Thurston | ||
Doctoral advisor Jean-Francois Le Gall | ||
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Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a French mathematician working on random processes such as self-avoiding random walks, Brownian motion, 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 Fields Medal "for his contributions to the development of stochastic Loewner evolution, the geometry of two-dimensional Brownian motion, and conformal field theory". He is professor at ETH Zürich.
Contents
- Entretien avec wendelin werner math maticien et m daille fields 2006
- Wendelin werner breaking the wall of randomness falling walls 2009
- Biography
- Awards and honors
- Miscellaneous
- References
Wendelin werner breaking the wall of randomness falling walls 2009
Biography
Werner became a French national in 1977. After a classe préparatoire at Lycée Hoche in Versailles, he studied at École Normale Supérieure from 1987 to 1991. His 1993 doctorate was written at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie and supervised by Jean-François Le Gall. Werner was a research officer at the CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research, Centre national de la recherche scientifique) from 1991 to 1997, during which period he held a two-year Leibniz Fellowship, at the University of Cambridge. He has been Professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay from 1997 to 2013 (and has also been teaching at the École Normale Supérieure from 2005 to 2013).
Awards and honors
He has received other awards, including the Fermat Prize in 2001, the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand of the French Academy of Sciences in 2003, the Loève Prize in 2005, and the 2006 SIAM George Pólya Prize with his collaborators Gregory Lawler and Oded Schramm. He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1998 and is a trustee of the Rollo Davidson Trust. He became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2008. He is also member of other academies of sciences, including the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and is an honorary fellow of Gonville and Caius College.
Miscellaneous
He also had a part in the 1982 French film La Passante du Sans-Souci.
