Stanislav Smirnov

Stanislaw Smirnov (2008)

Stanislaw Konstantinowitsch Smirnow , called Stas Smirnov, ( Russian Станислав Константинович Смирнов ; English transcription: Stanislav Konstantinovich Smirnov ; born September 3, 1970 in Leningrad ) is a Russian mathematician and dynamic theory of the perkolation of the complex .

Smirnow won the gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1986 and 1987 , each with the highest possible number of points. He studied at the University of Saint Petersburg with Viktor Chawin and obtained his doctorate in 1996 at Caltech with Nikolai Georgievich Makarov (Makarov). As a post-doc he was at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn , at Yale University and at the Institute for Advanced Study . In 1998 he went to the Royal Technical University in Stockholm as a lecturer and was also a researcher at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . Since 2003 he has been a professor at the University of Geneva .

Smirnow made important contributions to the theory of percolation with the help of SLE by Oded Schramm ( Schramm-Löwner evolution ). Among other things, he proved conformal invariance for percolation on triangular grids at the critical point (and proved a formula for the transition probabilities in this limiting case, which was assumed by John Cardy ) as well as for the random cluster model and the Ising model in two dimensions (with Dmitri Sergejewitsch Tschelkak ). With Wendelin Werner he also proved theorems about the existence and values ​​of the critical exponents in two-dimensional percolation.

In 2001 he received the Salem Prize and the Clay Research Award with Oded Schramm . In 2002 he received the Rollo Davidson Prize, in 2004 the EMS Prize of the European Mathematical Society and in 2010 he received the Fields Medal . He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2013 . He is an honorary doctor of Joseph Fourier University . In 1996 he received the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society's Prize for Young Mathematicians .

In 2006 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid ( Towards conformal invariance of two dimensional lattice models ). In 2012/13 and 2013/14 he was on the Abel Prize Committee.

Hugo Duminil-Copin is one of his doctoral students .

Web links

• Website at the University of Geneva
• Portrait at the Clay Research Institute
• Daniel Meyer, Dierk Schleicher A Fields Medal for Stas Smirnov , Mitt. DMV 2010, PDF

Individual evidence

1. ^ Critical percolation in the plane , Compte Rendu Acad. Sci. Paris, Series Math., Vol. 333, 2001, pp. 239-244
2. ↑ In the so-called scaling limit case
3. ↑ Chelkak, Smirnov, Universality in the 2D Ising model and conformal invariance of fermionic observables, Inventiones Mathematicae, Volume 189, 2012, pp. 515-580, Arxiv
4. ^ Membership directory: Stanislav Smirnov. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 14, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Stanislaw Smirnow in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)