Alain-Sol Sznitman
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Alain-Sol Sznitman (born December 13, 1955 in Paris ) is a French mathematician who deals with probability theory.
Live and act
Sznitman studied at the École normal supérieure , was then from 1979 a scientist at the CNRS at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Univ. Paris VI), where he received his doctorate in 1983 (Doctorat d'Etat). In 1984/85 he was at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University , where he became Associate Professor in 1987 and Professor in 1990. In 1991 he became a professor at the ETH Zurich , where he was director of the Research Institute for Mathematics from 1995 to 1999 .
Sznitman is known for his work on stochastic systems of many interacting particles (with a variable number of particles, "Propagation of Chaos") and Brownian motion with traps and obstacles.
In 1991 he received the Rollo Davidson Prize and in 1999 the Loève Prize . In 1989 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1992 he gave a plenary lecture at the first European Congress of Mathematicians in Paris ( Brownian motion and obstacles ). In 1998 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Berlin ( Brownian motion and random obstacles ) and in 1992 he gave a plenary lecture at the first European Congress of Mathematicians. He is on the advisory board of the Paris Institute Henri Poincaré .
He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and since 2008 a full member of the Academia Europaea .
Fonts
- Brownian Motion, Obstacles and Random Media, Springer 1998
- Topics in propagation of chaos, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 1464, Springer 1991 (Saint Flour Probability Summer School 1989), pp. 164-251
- Brownian Motion and random obstacles, ICM 1998
Web links
- Homepage at the ETH Zurich
- Laudation for the Loeve Prize
- Literature by and about Alain-Sol Sznitman in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alain-Sol Sznitman in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Directory of members: Alain-Sol Sznitman. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 15, 2017 .
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SURNAME | Sznitman, Alain-Sol |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1955 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |