Jeremy Quastel

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Jeremy Quastel
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Quastel at Nançay Radio Observatory in 2012
BornDecember 20, 1963 (1963-12-20) (age 60)
Canada
Alma mater New York University
Children2
Awards Jeffery–Williams Prize 2019
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions
Thesis Diffusion of colour in the simple exclusion process  (1990)
Doctoral advisor S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

Jeremy Daniel Quastel FRS , FRSC is a Canadian mathematician specializing in probability theory, stochastic processes, partial differential equations. He is currently head of the mathematics department at the University of Toronto. [1] He grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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Career

Quastel earned his PhD at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in 1990; the advisory was S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan. He was a postdoctoral student at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, then a faculty member at University of California, Davis for the next six years; [2] returned to Canada in 1998. [3]

Research

Jeremy Quastel is recognized as one of the top probabilists in the world in the fields of hydrodynamic theory, stochastic partial differential equations, and integrable probability. [2] In particular, his research is on the large scale behaviour of interacting particle systems and stochastic partial differential equations. [3] Together with Konstantin Matetski and Daniel Remenik, Quastel gave an exact formulation of the KPZ fixed point in terms of its transition probabilities. [4]

Awards, distinctions, and recognitions

Family

Jeremy Quastel is the grandson of biochemist Juda Hirsch Quastel.

Sources

  1. "Faculty". Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Professor Jeremy Quastel Named Winner of the 2018 CRM - Fields - PIMS Prize". Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. Dec 11, 2017. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 "Home Page of Jeremy Quastel". www.math.toronto.edu. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
  4. Matetski, Konstantin; Quastel, Jeremy; Remenik, Daniel (2021). "The KPZ fixed point". Acta Mathematica. 227 (1). International Press of Boston: 115–203. arXiv: 1701.00018 . doi:10.4310/acta.2021.v227.n1.a3.
  5. "Professor Jeremy Quastel FRS" . Retrieved Dec 8, 2022.
  6. "Jeffery-Williams Prize". Canadian Mathematical Society. Retrieved Feb 12, 2020.
  7. "Eight U of T science faculty join Royal Society of Canada as fellows". Sep 26, 2016. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
  8. "Jeremy Quastel, leading mathematician". University of Toronto News. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
  9. "CDM Conference 2011 (Current Developments in Mathematics)". www.math.harvard.edu. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.[ permanent dead link ]

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