Biography:Jeremy Quastel

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Short description: Canadian mathematician (born 1963)
Jeremy Quastel
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Quastel at Nançay Radio Observatory in 2012
BornDecember 20, 1963 (1963-12-20) (age 60)
Canada
Alma materNew York University
Children2
AwardsJeffery–Williams Prize 2019
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
ThesisDiffusion of colour in the simple exclusion process (1990)
Doctoral advisorS. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

Jeremy Daniel Quastel FRS, FRSC is a Canadian mathematician specializing in probability theory, stochastic processes, partial differential equations. He is currently head of the mathematics department at the University of Toronto.[1] He grew up in Vancouver , British Columbia, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Career

Quastel earned his PhD at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in 1990; the advisory was S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan. He was a postdoctoral student at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, then a faculty member at University of California, Davis for the next six years;[2] returned to Canada in 1998.[3]

Research

Jeremy Quastel is recognized as one of the top probabilists in the world in the fields of hydrodynamic theory, stochastic partial differential equations, and integrable probability.[2] In particular, his research is on the large scale behaviour of interacting particle systems and stochastic partial differential equations.[3]

Awards, distinctions, and recognitions

  • Fellow of the Royal Society (2021)[4]
  • CMS Jeffery–Williams Prize (2019)[5]
  • CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (2018)[2]
  • Royal Society of Canada Fellow (2016)[6]
  • Killam Research Fellowship (2013) for his research of stochastic processes and partial differential equations used to describe natural processes of change and evolution[7]
  • invited speaker at the Current Developments in Mathematics (2011)[8]
  • invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad (2010)
  • Sloan Fellow (1996–98)[3]

Family

Jeremy Quastel is the grandson of biochemist Juda Hirsch Quastel.

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