Thomas M. Liggett
Thomas Milton Liggett | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 29, 1944 Danville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | May 12, 2020 (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College (BA) Stanford University (MS, PhD) |
| Spouse |
Christina Marie Goodale
(m. 1972) |
| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | UCLA |
| Thesis | Weak Convergence of Conditioned Sums of Independent Random Vectors (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | Samuel Karlin |
| Doctoral students | Norman Matloff Amber L. Puha |
Thomas Milton Liggett (March 29, 1944 – May 12, 2020) was a mathematician at the
interacting particle systems
.
Early life
Thomas Milton Liggett was born on March 29, 1944, in
Kai Lai Chung, and writing his thesis, Weak Convergence of Conditioned Sums of Independent Random Vectors, in 1969 with advisor Samuel Karlin on problems associated with the invariance principle. He graduated with a Master of Science in 1966 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1969.[1][2][3]
Career
Liggett joined the faculty at
UCLA in 1969, where he spent his entire career. He became a professor in the mathematics department in 1976, and served as department chair from 1991 to 1994. He retired in 2011, but remained active within the department.[4] He was the advisor of Norman Matloff[3] and Amber L. Puha.[5]
Liggett had contributed to numerous areas of
interacting particle systems, including the contact process, the voter model, and the exclusion process.[6][7] His two books in this field have been influential.[8][9]
Liggett was the managing editor of the
National Academy of Sciences in 2008.[2][10] He had been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2012,[11] and in 2012 he also became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[12]
Personal life
Liggett married Christina Marie Goodale on August 19, 1972. They had two children, Timothy and Amy.[1] Liggett died on May 12, 2020, in Los Angeles.[4][13]
Notes
- ^ ISBN 978-1-880142-01-1.
- ^ a b "Tom Liggett's curriculum vitae".
- ^ a b Thomas M. Liggett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "In Memoriam: Thomas M. Liggett". www.math.ucla.edu. May 28, 2020. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
- ^ Thomas M. Liggett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Tom Liggett's publications on Google Scholar".
- ^ "Publications of Tom Liggett since 2000".
- ISBN 0-387-96069-4.
- ISBN 3-540-65995-1.
- ^ "UCLA Newsroom, 13 June 2009".
- ^ "Six UCLA professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-27.
- ^ Durrett, Rick (July 16, 2020). "Obituary: Thomas M. Liggett 1944–2020". imstat.org. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
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