Nationality Israeli Name Yuval Peres | Fields Mathematics | |
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Born 5 October 1963 (age 60)
Jerusalem, Israel ( 1963-10-05 ) Institutions Microsoft Research, Redmond Alma mater Hebrew University of Jerusalem Doctoral students Elchanan Mossel, David Levin, Balint Virag, Noam Berger, Alan M. Hammond, Gabor Pete, Manjunath Krishnapur, Lionel Levine, Asaf Nachmias, Ron Peled, Jian Ding, others Notable awards Loeve Prize (2001)
Davidson Prize (1995) Education Hebrew University of Jerusalem Books Markov Chains and Mixing Times, Brownian Motion Awards David P. Robbins Prize, Rollo Davidson Prize, Loeve Prize | ||
Doctoral advisor Hillel Furstenberg | ||
Lecture 1 markov chains mixing times hitting times and cover times yuval peres
Yuval Peres (Hebrew: יובל פרס; born 5 October 1963) is a Principal Researcher in the Theory Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. He is known for his research in probability theory, ergodic theory, mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science, and in particular for topics such as fractals and Hausdorff measure, random walks, Brownian motion, percolation and Markov chain mixing times. He was born in Israel and obtained his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990 under the supervision of Hillel Furstenberg. He was a faculty member at the Hebrew University and the University of California at Berkeley.
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- Lecture 1 markov chains mixing times hitting times and cover times yuval peres
- Yuval peres cutoff on ramanujan graphs
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Peres was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1995 and the Loève Prize in 2001. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002. In 2011, he was a co-recipient of the David P. Robbins Prize. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2016, he was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
Peres has coauthored more than 250 research papers. Some of his long-term research collaborators are Itai Benjamini, Amir Dembo, Russell Lyons, Assaf Naor, Robin Pemantle, Oded Schramm, Scott Sheffield, Boris Solomyak and Ofer Zeitouni. He has advised 21 Ph.D students.