Wendelin Werner
Wendelin Werner | |
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Wendelin Werner at the ENS at Lyon | |
Born |
Cologne, West Germany | 23 September 1968
Nationality | French |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | ETH Zurich |
Alma mater |
Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie École Normale Supérieure |
Doctoral advisor | Jean-François Le Gall |
Notable awards |
Fields Medal (2006) SIAM George Pólya Prize(2006) Loève Prize (2005) Fermat Prize (2001) Davidson Prize (1998) |
Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, 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. He is currently professor at ETH ZĂĽrich.
Werner became a French national in 1977. After a classe préparatoire at Lycée Hoche, he studied at the 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 during 16 years, from 1997 to 2013 (and has also been teaching at the École Normale Supérieure from 2005 to 2013).
He has received other awards, including the Fermat Prize in 2001, 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.[1] He became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2008.
He also had a part in the 1982 French film La Passante du Sans-Souci.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Wendelin Werner", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- Wendelin Werner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Personal page at Orsay
- CV page
- Citation for 2006 PĂłlya Prize
- Wendelin Werner, 2006 Fields Medal Winner CNRS press release
- (French) News story
- BBC story
- W. W. presenting on hungarian "TV University" - April 2007 streaming video
- La Passante du Sans-Souci on imdb.org
- Wendelin Werner filmography on imdb.org
- Cours sur les courbes planes aléatoires: http://www.universites-numeriques.fr/ressources/thematic-search.html?menuKey=unt&id=un_103_5&submenuKey=thematic_un&sort_field=author&sort_field_ascending=false
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