Michael Lacey

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Michael Lacey is an American mathematician. Lacey received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987, under the direction of Walter Philipp. His thesis was in the area of Probability in Banach Spaces, and solved a problem related to law of the iterated logarithm for the empirical characteristic functions. In the intervening years, his work has touched on the areas of Probability, Ergodic theory, and most importantly, Harmonic analysis.

His first postdoctoral positions were at the Louisiana State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at UNC, Lacey and Walter Philipp gave their proof of the Central Limit Theorem.

He held a position at Indiana University from 1989 to 1996. While there, he received a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. During the tenure of this fellowship began a study of the Bilinear Hilbert Transform. This transform was at the time the subject of a known conjecture, by Alberto Calderón. In 1996, Lacey and Christoph Thiele solved these conjectures, work for which they were awarded the Salem Prize.

Since 1996, he has been a Professor of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2004, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, for joint work with Xiaochun Li.