Greg Lawler

Gregory Francis Lawler (born July 14, 1955) is an American mathematician working in probability theory and best known for his work since 2000 on the Schramm–Loewner evolution.[1][2][3]

Greg Lawler
Born (1955-07-14) July 14, 1955
AwardsWolf Prize in Mathematics (2019)

He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1979 under the supervision of Edward Nelson.[4] He was on the faculty of Duke University from 1979 to 2001, of Cornell University from 2001 to 2006, and since 2006 is at the University of Chicago.[5]

He received the 2006 SIAM George Pólya Prize with Oded Schramm and Wendelin Werner. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6] In 2019 he received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.[7]

References
  1. Lawler, Gregory F.; Schramm, Oded; Werner, Wendelin (2001). "The Dimension of the Planar Brownian Frontier is 4/3". Mathematical Research Letters. 8 (4): 401–411. doi:10.4310/mrl.2001.v8.n4.a1. ISSN 1073-2780.
  2. Werner, Wendelin; Schramm, Oded; Lawler, Gregory F. (January 2004). "Conformal invariance of planar loop-erased random walks and uniform spanning trees". The Annals of Probability. 32 (1B): 939–995. doi:10.1214/aop/1079021469. ISSN 0091-1798.
  3. Random walks and geometry : proceedings of a workshop at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, June 18-July 13, 2001. Kaimanovich, Vadim A., Schmidt, Klaus, 1943-, Woess, Wolfgang, 1954-. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 2004. ISBN 9783110198089. OCLC 232160048.CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. Greg Lawler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Gregory F. Lawler, George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Mathematics, Statistics, and the College". www.stat.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  6. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.
  7. Wolf Prize 2019 - Jerusalem Post
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