Scott Sheffield

Scott Sheffield (born October 20, 1973 ) is an American mathematician who deals with probability theory.

Sheffield received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 1998 and received his PhD from Stanford University with Amir Dembo in 2003 ( Random surfaces: large deviations and gradient Gibbs measure classifications ). He then worked at Microsoft Research from 2002 to 2004 , 2004/2005 at the University of California, Berkeley , 2005/2006 Assistant Professor and from 2007 Associate Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and 2006/2007 at the Institute for Advanced Study . In 2008 he became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

In 2006 he received the Rollo-Davidson Prize for young probability theorists for his work on the application of the Schramm-Löwner Evolution (SLE) in spatial stochastic models. With Jason P. Miller he dealt with the geometry of Gaussian Free Fields (GFF) and found embeddings of various SLE in GFF. They also proved the equivalence of two models of random surfaces (Brownian Maps, Liouville Quantum Gravity).

In 2009 he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and in 2011 the Loève Prize . He was a Sloan Fellow. In 2017 he received the Clay Research Award .

He worked with Richard Kenyon , Oded Schramm , Gregory F. Lawler , Yuval Peres and the Fields Medal Prize winners Andrei Okounkov and Wendelin Werner , among others .

Fonts

Random Surfaces , Asterisque, No. 304, 2006 (177 pages)
Gaussian free fields for mathematicians , 2003
with Oded Schramm Contour lines of the two-dimensional discrete Gaussian free field , Acta Mathematica (Preprint 2006)

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Sheffield, Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	20th October 1973

[1] Scott Sheffield in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)

[2] Scott Sheffield, Gaussian free fields for mathematicians , 2003