Werner to Deliver Colloquium Lectures
The
AMS Colloquium Lectures will be delivered by Wendelin Werner, University
of Paris-Sud, on Sunday, January 6, 2008 - Tuesday, January 8, 2008 from
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. He will speak on Random conformally invariant
pictures. These lectures will be held in Room 6AB, San Diego Convention
Center.
Wendelin Werner was born in Germany in 1968 and acquired French
nationality in 1977. He is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure
(1987-1991). After working as a researcher at CNRS (1991-1997), he was
appointed professor at the Université Paris-Sud 11 in 1997 and
has since continued his research at the Laboratoire de mathématiques
of the Orsay Faculty of Science (Université Paris-Sud 11/CNRS joint
unit).
Werner was awarded the Fields Medal in 2006 during the International
Congress of Mathematicians held in Madrid. The medal was awarded in recognition
of his work in the field of probability. 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.
His interests lie in probability theory and its relations to statistical
physics, complex analysis and partial differential equations. Together
with Greg Lawler and Oded Schramm, he has developed new
tools and ideas that enable to understand better two-dimensional phase
transitions and prove physicists' conjectures coming from conformal field
theory.