Biography:Geoffrey Grimmett

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Geoffrey Grimmett

FRS OLY
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Born
Geoffrey Richard Grimmett

(1950-12-20) 20 December 1950 (age 73)[1]
Birmingham, England, UK
NationalityBritish
Alma materMerton College, Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Spouse(s)
Rosine Bonay (m. 1986)
[1][2]
ChildrenHugo Grimmett[2]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisRandom Fields and Random Graphs (1974)
Doctoral advisor
Websitewww.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~grg

Geoffrey Richard Grimmett FRS[6] OLY (born 20 December 1950)[1] is an English mathematician known for his work on the mathematics of random systems arising in probability theory[7][8][9] and statistical mechanics, especially percolation theory[10] and the contact process.[11][3] He is the Professor of Mathematical Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and was the Master of Downing College, Cambridge, from 2013 to 2018.[12]

Education

Grimmett was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Merton College, Oxford. He graduated in 1971, and completed his DPhil in 1974[13] under the supervision of John Hammersley and Dominic Welsh.[5]

Career and research

Grimmett served as the IBM Research Fellow at New College, Oxford, from 1974 to 1976 before moving to the University of Bristol.[1][14] He was appointed Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge in 1992, becoming a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.[15] He was Director of the Statistical Laboratory from 1994 to 2000, Head of the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) from 2002 to 2007, and is a trustee of the Rollo Davidson Prize.[16]

He served as the managing editor of the journal Probability Theory and Related Fields from 2000 to 2005,[citation needed] and was appointed managing editor of Probability Surveys in 2009.[citation needed]

At a time of flowering of probabilistic methods in all branches of mathematics, Grimmett is one of the broadest probabilists of his generation, and unquestionably a leading figure in the subject on the world scene.[6] He is particularly recognised for his achievements in the rigorous theory of disordered physical systems.[6] Especially influential is his work on and around percolation theory, the contact model for stochastic spatial epidemics, and the random-cluster model, a class that includes the Ising/Potts models of ferromagnetism.[6] His monograph on percolation is a standard work in a core area of probability, and is widely cited.[6] His breadth within probability is emphasized by his important contributions to probabilistic combinatorics and probabilistic number theory.[6]

In October 2013 he was appointed Master of Downing College, Cambridge, succeeding Barry Everitt.[2] He ended his term as Master on 30 September 2018, being replaced by Alan Bookbinder.[17]

He was appointed Chair of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research in September 2020.[18]

Awards and honours

Grimmett was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1989[citation needed] and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014.[6]

Personal life

Grimmett is the son of Benjamin J Grimmett and Patricia W (Lewis) Grimmett.[19]

He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal as a member of the Great Britain Men's Foil Team, finishing 6th.[20]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Anon (2014). ",". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U18289. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U18289.  (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Professor Geoffrey Grimmett elected as next Master
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  4. ↑ Grimmett, G. R.; McDiarmid, C. J. H. (2008). "On colouring random graphs". Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 77 (2): 313. doi:10.1017/S0305004100051124. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Geoffrey Grimmett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Anon (2014). "Professor Geoffrey Grimmett FRS". London: Royal Society. https://royalsociety.org/people/geoffrey-grimmett-11547/.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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  7. ↑ Grimmett, G. R.; Stirzaker, D. R. (2001). Probability and Random Processes. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198572220. 
  8. ↑ Grimmett, G. R. (2010). Probability on Graphs. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521147354. http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~grg/books/pgs.html. 
  9. ↑ Aldous, David (2013). "Book Review: Probability on graphs: random processes on graphs and lattices by Geoffrey Grimmett". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 51 (1): 173–175. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01428-9. ISSN 0273-0979. 
  10. ↑ Grimmett, G. (1999). "What is Percolation?". Percolation. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften. 321. pp. 1–31. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-03981-6_1. ISBN 978-3-642-08442-3. 
  11. ↑ "Geoffrey Grimmett's homepage at the University of Cambridge". http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~grg/. 
  12. ↑ Geoffrey Grimmett publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (Subscription content?)
  13. ↑ Grimmett, Geoffrey (1974). Random Fields and Random Graphs (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 500458360. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.457489.
  14. ↑ Frieze, A. M.; Grimmett, G. R. (1985). "The shortest-path problem for graphs with random arc-lengths". Discrete Applied Mathematics 10: 57–77. doi:10.1016/0166-218X(85)90059-9. 
  15. ↑ "Fellows of the Colleges: Churchill". Cambridge University Reporter. University of Cambridge. 2 October 2008. http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2008-09/special/03/2.html. 
  16. ↑ "Trustees of the Rollo Davidson Trust". http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/Rollo/trustees.html. 
  17. ↑ "Downing College announces Master Elect". 29 November 2017. http://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/news/downing-college-announces-master-elect. 
  18. ↑ "Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research | New Chair". https://heilbronn.ac.uk/2019/09/06/new-chair/. 
  19. ↑ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=sBvu2l%2BeQ8rYa7%2F25ae8%2FA&scan=1. 
  20. ↑ "SR/Olympic Sports". https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/geoffrey-grimmett-1.html. 
Academic offices
Preceded by
Barry Everitt 		Master of Downing College, Cambridge
2013–2018 		Succeeded by
Alan Bookbinder



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