Herbert Spohn

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Herbert Spohn (born 1 November 1946) is a German mathematician and mathematical physicist working in kinetic equations; dynamics of stochastic particle systems, hydrodynamic limit; kinetic of growths processes; disordered systems; open quantum systems dynamics of charged particles coupled to their radiation field; Schrödinger operators; functional integration and stochastic analysis.

His PhD was obtained in 1975 at the University of Munich under the supervision of Georg Süßmann. [1]

He is currently (in the year 2021) Emeritus Professor of the Department of Mathematics of the Technical University Munich. [2] [3]

He obtained several prizes. In 2011 he was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, [4] the Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics (AMS) and the Premio Caterina Tomassoni e Felice Pietro Chisesi Prize of University of Roma "La Sapienza". He is Docteur Honoris Causa de L'Université Paris-Dauphine. In 2017, he received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society, in 2019, the Boltzmann Medal of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

He wrote the books Large Scale Dynamics of Interacting Particles (Springer, 1991) [5] and Dynamics of Charged Particles and Their Radiation Field (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Mathematical Physics". [6]

Spohn is the brother of the historical sociologist Willfried Spohn and of the analytic philosopher Wolfgang Spohn.

Together with Michael Prähofer he introduced the Airy process. [7]

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References

  1. "Herbert Spohn – the Mathematics Genealogy Project".
  2. Faculty profile, TU Munich, retrieved 13 March 2012.
  3. Emeritus, TUM Emeritus of Excellence, retrieved 24 January 2019.
  4. Prof. Herbert Spohn awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics 2011 Archived 26 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Research in Germany, retrieved 13 March 2012.
  5. Rost, Hermann (1993). "Review of Large Scale Dynamics of Interacting Particles". Journal of Statistical Physics. 73 (3–4): 803–806. doi:10.1007/BF01054353. S2CID   123237709.
  6. "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  7. Prähofer, Michael; Spohn, Herbert (2002). "Scale Invariance of the PNG Droplet and the Airy Process". Journal of Statistical Physics. 108 (5/6). Springer: 1071–1106. arXiv: math/0105240 . doi:10.1023/A:1019791415147. S2CID   11701694.