Biography:Jeremy Quastel

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Jeremy Quastel
Quastel at Nançay Radio Observatory in 2012
BornTemplate:Birth date and age text
Canada
EducationNew York University (PhD)
Children2
Awards
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 and partial differential equations. He currently University Professor at the University of Toronto, and previously served as department head from 2017 until 2021.[1].

Career

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

Research

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] Together with Konstantin Matetski and Daniel Remenik, Quastel gave an exact formulation of the KPZ fixed point in terms of its transition probabilities.[4]

Awards, distinctions, and recognitions

  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) John C. Polanyi Award (2025)[5]
  • Fellow of the Royal Society (2021)[6]
  • CMS Jeffery–Williams Prize (2019)[7]
  • CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (2018)[2]
  • Royal Society of Canada Fellow (2016)[8]
  • Killam Research Fellowship (2013) for his research of stochastic processes and partial differential equations used to describe natural processes of change and evolution[9]
  • invited speaker at the Current Developments in Mathematics (2011)[10]
  • 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.

Sources

  1. ↑ "Fellow Detail Page | Royal Society". https://royalsociety.org/people/jeremy-quastel-35027. Retrieved Sep 17, 2024. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Professor Jeremy Quastel Named Winner of the 2018 CRM - Fields - PIMS Prize". Dec 11, 2017. https://www.pims.math.ca/news/professor-jeremy-quastel-named-winner-2018-crm-fields-pims-prize. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Home Page of Jeremy Quastel". http://www.math.toronto.edu/quastel/. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019. 
  4. ↑ Matetski, Konstantin; Quastel, Jeremy; Remenik, Daniel (2021). "The KPZ fixed point". Acta Mathematica (International Press of Boston) 227 (1): 115–203. doi:10.4310/acta.2021.v227.n1.a3. 
  5. ↑ Government of Canada, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (2025-10-30). "NSERC Prizes - John C. Polanyi Award". https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Prizes-Prix/Polanyi-Polanyi/Profiles-Profils/Quastel-Quastel_eng.asp. 
  6. ↑ "Professor Jeremy Quastel FRS". https://royalsociety.org/people/jeremy-quastel-35027. Retrieved Dec 8, 2022. 
  7. ↑ "Jeffery-Williams Prize". https://cms.math.ca/Prizes/info/jw.html. Retrieved Feb 12, 2020. 
  8. ↑ "Eight U of T science faculty join Royal Society of Canada as fellows". Sep 26, 2016. https://thevarsity.ca/2016/09/25/eight-u-of-t-science-faculty-join-royal-society-of-canada-as-fellows/. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019. 
  9. ↑ "Jeremy Quastel, leading mathematician". https://www.utoronto.ca/news/jeremy-quastel-leading-mathematician. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019. 
  10. ↑ "CDM Conference 2011 (Current Developments in Mathematics)". http://www.math.harvard.edu/cdm/cdm11.html. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019. 



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