Bálint Virág
Bálint Virág (born November 2, 1973 ) is a Hungarian mathematician who deals with stochastics .
Balint attended grammar school in Budapest and from 1992 studied at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree magna cum laude (under Persi Diaconis ) in 1996 and received his doctorate in 2000 at the University of California, Berkeley with Yuval Peres (Random walks and geometry on graphs of exponential growth). From 2000 to 2003 he was a Moore Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He became Assistant Professor in 2003, Associate Professor in 2008 and Professor in 2011 at the University of Toronto , where he holds a Canada Research Chair.
He researches random matrices, random polynomials, random walks and randomness on groups.
Balint received the Rollo Davidson Prize in 2008 , the John L. Synge Award in 2014 and the Coxeter James Prize in 2010 . From 2004 to 2008 he was a Sloan Fellow.
Fonts
- with Yuval Peres, JB Hough, M. Krishnapur: Zeros of Gaussian analytic functions and determinantal point processes, AMS, 2009
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Virág, Bálint |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd November 1973 |