Alain-Sol Sznitman
Alain-Sol Sznitman (born 13 December 1955) is a French and Swiss mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich. His research concerns probability theory and mathematical physics.[1] Within the field of percolation theory, Sznitman introduced the study of random interlacements.[2]
Education and career
Sznitman did his undergraduate studies at the
dual citizen of France and Switzerland.[1]
Recognition
In 1991, Sznitman won the Rollo Davidson Prize, given annually to an early-career probabilist, and in 1999 he won the Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability.[1] He became a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1997,[1] and of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.[4] He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998.[1][5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2021-03-05.
- ISBN 978-3-319-05851-1.
- ^ Alain-Sol Sznitman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-01-14.
- ^ Sznitman, Alain-Sol (1998). "Brownian motion and random obstacles". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 301–310.