Jeremy Quastel
Jeremy Quastel | |
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Born | December 20, 1963 Canada | (age 60)
Alma mater | New York University |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Jeffery–Williams Prize 2019 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Diffusion of colour in the simple exclusion process (1990) |
Doctoral advisor | S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan |
Jeremy Daniel Quastel FRS, FRSC is a Canadian mathematician specializing in probability theory, stochastic processes, partial differential equations. He served as head of the mathematics department at the University of Toronto from 2017 until 2021.[1] He grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Career
[edit]Quastel earned his PhD at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in 1990; the advisory was S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan. He was a postdoctoral student at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, then a faculty member at University of California, Davis for the next six years;[2] returned to Canada in 1998.[3]
Research
[edit]Jeremy Quastel is recognized as one of the top probabilists in the world in the fields of hydrodynamic theory, stochastic partial differential equations, and integrable probability.[2] In particular, his research is on the large scale behaviour of interacting particle systems and stochastic partial differential equations.[3] Together with Konstantin Matetski and Daniel Remenik, Quastel gave an exact formulation of the KPZ fixed point in terms of its transition probabilities.[4]
Awards, distinctions, and recognitions
[edit]- Fellow of the Royal Society (2021)[5]
- CMS Jeffery–Williams Prize (2019)[6]
- CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (2018)[2]
- Royal Society of Canada Fellow (2016)[7]
- Killam Research Fellowship (2013) for his research of stochastic processes and partial differential equations used to describe natural processes of change and evolution[8]
- invited speaker at the Current Developments in Mathematics (2011)[9]
- invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad (2010)
- Sloan Fellow (1996–98)[3]
Family
[edit]Jeremy Quastel is the grandson of biochemist Juda Hirsch Quastel.
Sources
[edit]- ^ "Fellow Detail Page | Royal Society". Retrieved Sep 17, 2024.
- ^ a b c "Professor Jeremy Quastel Named Winner of the 2018 CRM - Fields - PIMS Prize". Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. Dec 11, 2017. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
- ^ a b c "Home Page of Jeremy Quastel". www.math.toronto.edu. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
- ^ Matetski, Konstantin; Quastel, Jeremy; Remenik, Daniel (2021). "The KPZ fixed point". Acta Mathematica. 227 (1). International Press of Boston: 115–203. arXiv:1701.00018. doi:10.4310/acta.2021.v227.n1.a3.
- ^ "Professor Jeremy Quastel FRS". Retrieved Dec 8, 2022.
- ^ "Jeffery-Williams Prize". Canadian Mathematical Society. Retrieved Feb 12, 2020.
- ^ "Eight U of T science faculty join Royal Society of Canada as fellows". Sep 26, 2016. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
- ^ "Jeremy Quastel, leading mathematician". University of Toronto News. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
- ^ "CDM Conference 2011 (Current Developments in Mathematics)". www.math.harvard.edu. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.[permanent dead link]