Patrik Ferrari
Patrik L. Ferrari (born July 16, 1977 in Locarno ) is a Swiss mathematical physicist who deals with stochastics and statistical mechanics . He is a professor at the University of Bonn .
Origin and education
Ferrari comes from Lodano in the Maggia Valley, part of Italian-speaking Switzerland. In 1996 he took part in the Physics Olympics for the Swiss team in Oslo. From 1996 he studied at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and completed a stay abroad at Rutgers University . In 2001 he received an award for the second-best general grade point average over the entire course at EPFL. His thesis was supervised by Joel Lebowitz and dealt with contact matrices at Random Walk . Ferrari received his doctorate in 2004 from the Technical University of Munich under Herbert Spohn . His doctoral thesis dealt with area-specific crystal growth.
Academic activity
From 2006 he was at the Weierstrass Institute in Berlin and since 2008 at the University of Bonn, where he became professor at the Institute for Applied Mathematics (Stochastic Analysis Department) in 2009.
His work has practical applications in particular in physical chemistry, thermodynamics and crystal growth. These include directed polymers, percolation , random matrices , stochastic growth models such as models of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang class (KPZ).
The growth of their interfaces is described in these models by a stochastic partial differential equation. These include TASEP (Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process), LPP (Last Passage Percolation), PNG (Polynuclear Growth), Random Tilings such as Interacting Particle Systems. Problems that he highlights are, above all, many-body systems and their thermodynamic limit cases and the influence of random perturbations. He also deals with the question of the universality of fluctuations in stochastic models, which are often motivated by statistical mechanics.
Awards and personal information
In 2009 he received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize . Ferrari is married and has two children.
Web links
- Literature by and about Patrik Ferrari in the catalog of the German National Library
- Patrik Ferrari on the website of the University of Bonn
- Literature according to arXiv.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Kardar, Giorgio Parisi , YC Zhang (1986, Phys. Rev. Lett., 56, 889).
- ↑ Laudatory speech
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ferrari, Patrik |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ferrari, Patrik L. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss mathematical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Locarno |