Biography:Allan Sly (mathematician)
Allan Murray Sly is an Australian mathematician and statistician specializing in probability theory. He is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2018.
Education and career
Sly was a member of the Australian team at the 1999 and 2000 International Mathematical Olympiads, earning an honourable mention and a silver medal respectively.[1] He attended Radford College, where he was dux of the year in 2000.[2] He then studied at Australian National University, winning the University Medal in 2004,[3] earning a bachelor's degree, and in 2006 earning a M.Phil.[4]
He completed his Ph.D. in 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, Spatial and Temporal Mixing of Gibbs Measures, was supervised by Elchanan Mossel.[5]
After postdoctoral study at Microsoft Research, he joined the statistics faculty at Berkeley in 2011, and moved to Princeton University as a professor of mathematics in 2016.[6][7]
Contributions
Sly's work has included research on finding clusters in networks, the use of information percolation to analyze the "cutoff" phenomenon in which Markov chains exhibit a sharp transition to their stationary distribution, embeddings of random sequences, and phase transitions for random instances of the satisfiability problem.[4]
Recognition
Sly won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2012.[8] He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018 for "applying probability theory to resolve long-standing problems in statistical physics and computer science".[4][7] He is the winner of the 2019 Loeve prize.[9]
References
- ↑ Allan Sly, International Mathematical Olympiad, https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=5724, retrieved 2018-12-02
- ↑ Allan Sly (2000) – Macarthur Fellow 2018, Radford Collegians, 2018, https://radfordcollegians.com.au/allan-sly-2000-macarthur-fellow-2018/, retrieved 2018-12-02
- ↑ University Medallists from 1970 and winners of the University Prize 1963–1979, Australian National University, http://www.anu.edu.au/files/prize/university-medal-prev.pdf, retrieved 2018-12-02
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Allan Sly, MacArthur Foundation, 2018, https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1023/, retrieved 2018-12-02
- ↑ Allan Sly at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Two Berkeley alums win MacArthur 'genius' awards, UC Berkeley Public Affairs, October 5, 2018, https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/10/05/two-berkeley-alums-win-macarthur-genius-awards/, retrieved 2018-12-02
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Allan Sly named 2018 MacArthur Fellow, Princeton University Department of Mathematics, 2018, https://www.math.princeton.edu/news/allan-sly-named-2018-macarthur-fellow, retrieved 2018-12-02
- ↑ Q&A: Allan Sly on probability theory and random processes, UC Berkeley Public Affairs, February 15, 2012, https://news.berkeley.edu/2012/02/15/allan-sly-on-probability-theory-and-random-processes/, retrieved 2018-12-02
- ↑ Loeve Prize, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%C3%A8ve_Prize, retrieved 2019-07-14
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