Oded Schramm

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Oded Schramm (*1961 in Jerusalem) (Hebrew: עודד שרם‎) is an Israeli mathematician working at the intersection of conformal geometry and probability theory. A constant theme in his research is the exploration of relations between discrete models and their continuous scaling limits. His most significant contribution is the invention of stochastic Loewner evolution, a tool which has paved the way for rigorous proofs of conjectured scaling limit relations on models from statistical mechanics such as self-avoiding random walks and percolation. This technique has had such a profound impact on the field that it was recognized by the award of a Fields Medal to Wendelin Werner, one of Schramm's main co-authors.

Schramm received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1990 under the supervision of William Thurston. He is currently working with the Theory Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington.

He has received many awards, including the 2001 Salem Prize, the 2002 Clay Research Award, the 2003 Loève Prize, the 2003 Henri Poincaré Prize and the 2006 SIAM George Pólya Prize with Gregory Lawler and Wendelin Werner.