Kevin Costello

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Kevin Costello
Perimeter Institute
ThesisGromov–Witten invariants and symmetric products (2003)
Doctoral advisorIan Grojnowski[2]
Websitewww.perimeterinstitute.ca/people/kevin-costello

Kevin Joseph Costello FRS is an Irish mathematician, since 2014 the

Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.[1][3]

Education

Costello was educated at the

PhD in 2003[4] for research on Gromov–Witten invariants supervised by Ian Grojnowski.[2]

Career and research

Costello works in the field of

perturbative quantum field theory and the applications of topological and conformal field theories to other areas of mathematics. In the book Renormalization and Effective Field Theory[5] he introduced a rigorous mathematical formalism for the renormalization group flow formalism of Kenneth Wilson and proved the renormalizability of Yang–Mills theory
in this framework.

More recent work on formalism for quantum field theory uses the idea of a

Witten genus in elliptic cohomology, using a variant of Chern–Simons theory.[6]
Along with
Fields medalists Maxim Kontsevich and Edward Witten.[3][7]

Publications

  • Kevin Costello and Owen Gwilliam, Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory: volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 2017 ISBN 1-107-16310-2
  • Kevin Costello and Owen Gwilliam, Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory: volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 2021 ISBN 1-107-16315-3
  • Kevin Costello, Renormalization and Effective Field Theory, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 170, American Mathematical Society, 2022 ISBN 978-1-4704-7008-1

Awards and honours

Costello was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.[8] He was awarded the Berwick Prize[9][10] by the London Mathematical Society in 2017.[1] In 2020 he was admitted as an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Kevin Costello – Perimeter Institute". www.perimeterinstitute.ca.
  2. ^ a b Kevin Costello at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ a b "Perimeter Institute and Krembil Foundation Partner to Recruit World-Leading Physicists | Perimeter Institute". Perimeterinstitute.ca. 16 November 2013. Archived from the original on 22 April 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  4. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.620044
    .
  5. ISBN 978-0-8218-5288-0
  6. arXiv:1006.5422 [math.QA
    ].
  7. ^ "Waterloo think tank gets even smarter". The Globe and Mail. 16 November 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  8. ^ "Kevin Costello". royalsociety.org.
  9. ^ "List of LMS prize winners London Mathematical Society". London Mathematical Society Prizes. 16 July 2023. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  10. ^ "LMS Prizes 2017 London Mathematical Society". LMS Prizes 2017. 30 June 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  11. ^ "29 New Members Admitted". Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 27 November 2021.

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