Biography:Geoffrey Grimmett
Geoffrey Grimmett FRS OLY | |
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Born | Geoffrey Richard Grimmett 20 December 1950[1] Birmingham, England, UK |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
Spouse(s) | Rosine Bonay (m. 1986) [1][2] |
Children | Hugo Grimmett[2] |
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Thesis | Random Fields and Random Graphs (1974) |
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Website | www |
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
- ↑ 1.0 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)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Professor Geoffrey Grimmett elected as next Master
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Geoffrey Grimmett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 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: "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --
- ↑ Grimmett, G. R.; Stirzaker, D. R. (2001). Probability and Random Processes. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198572220.
- ↑ Grimmett, G. R. (2010). Probability on Graphs. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521147354. http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~grg/books/pgs.html.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Geoffrey Grimmett's homepage at the University of Cambridge". http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~grg/.
- ↑ Geoffrey Grimmett publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (Subscription content?)
- ↑ Grimmett, Geoffrey (1974). Random Fields and Random Graphs (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 500458360. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.457489.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Trustees of the Rollo Davidson Trust". http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/Rollo/trustees.html.
- ↑ "Downing College announces Master Elect". 29 November 2017. http://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/news/downing-college-announces-master-elect.
- ↑ "Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research | New Chair". https://heilbronn.ac.uk/2019/09/06/new-chair/.
- ↑ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=sBvu2l%2BeQ8rYa7%2F25ae8%2FA&scan=1.
- ↑ "SR/Olympic Sports". https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/geoffrey-grimmett-1.html.
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Preceded by Barry Everitt |
Master of Downing College, Cambridge 2013–2018 |
Succeeded by Alan Bookbinder |
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