Thomas M. Liggett

Thomas Milton Liggett (born March 29, 1944 in Danville (Kentucky) - † May 12, 2020 ) was an American mathematician . He dealt with probability theory and specifically interacting particle (Interacting Particle Systems), a field in which he pioneered.

Liggett, whose parents were missionaries in Latin America, grew up in Buenos Aires and San Juan, Puerto Rico . He studied at Oberlin College (Bachelor in 1965) and at Stanford University , where he received his master’s degree in 1966 (including lectures by Kai Lai Chung ) and received his doctorate in 1969 from Samuel Karlin ( Weak convergence of conditioned sums of independent random vectors ). In 1969 he became Assistant Professor and in 1976 Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

In 1973 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and in 1997/98 a Guggenheim Fellow. From 1985 to 1987 he was editor of the Annals of Probability . In 2008 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 2012 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1996 he was a Wald Lecturer at the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

In 1986 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley ( Spatial stochastic growth models - survival and critical behavior ). He was a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Fonts

Interacting Particle Systems , Basic Teachings of Mathematical Sciences , Springer Verlag 1985
Stochastic Interacting Systems: Contact, Voter and Exclusion Processes , Springer Verlag 1999
Continuous time Markov Processes: An Introduction , American Mathematical Society 2010

personal data
SURNAME	Liggett, Thomas M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Liggett, Thomas Milton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Danville, Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH	May 12, 2020