Wendelin Werner
Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a
German-born French mathematician working on Wendelin Werner
random processes such as self-avoiding random walks,
Brownian motion, Schramm–Loewner evolution, and
related theories in probability theory and mathematical
physics. In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of
Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain he received the
Fields Medal "for his contributions to the development
of stochastic Loewner evolution, the geometry of two-
dimensional Brownian motion, and conformal field
theory". He is currently Rouse Ball professor of
Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Werner in 2007
Born 23 September 1968
Cologne, West Germany
Biography (now Germany)
Werner was born on 23 September 1968 in Cologne, Nationality French
West Germany. His parents moved to France when he Alma mater École normale supérieure
was nine months old and he became a French citizen in Université Pierre-et-Marie-
1977.[1] After a classe préparatoire at Lycée Hoche in Curie
Versailles, he studied at École Normale Supérieure Awards Heinz Gumin Prize (de) (2016)
from 1987 to 1991. His 1993 doctorate was written at Fields Medal (2006)
the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie and supervised by Pólya Prize (2006)
Jean-François Le Gall. Werner was a researcher at the Loève Prize (2005)
CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research, Centre Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand
national de la recherche scientifique) from 1991 to (2003)
1997, during which he also held a two-year Leibniz Fermat Prize (2001)
Fellowship, at the University of Cambridge. He was EMS Prize (2000)
Professor at the University of Paris-Sud from 1997 to Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet
2013 and also taught at the École Normale Supérieure (1999)
from 2005 to 2013.[2][3] He was then Professor at the Davidson Prize (1998)
ETH Zürich from 2013 to 2023. Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions CNRS
Awards and honors Université Paris-Sud
Werner has received several awards besides the Fields ETH Zurich
Medal, including the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1998, the University of Cambridge
Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet in 1999, the Fermat Thesis Quelques propriétés du
Prize in 2001, the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand of the mouvement brownien plan
French Academy of Sciences in 2003, the Loève Prize (1993)
in 2005, the 2006 SIAM George Pólya Prize with his Doctoral Jean-François Le Gall
collaborators Gregory Lawler and Oded Schramm, and advisor
the Heinz Gumin Prize (de) in 2016. Doctoral Vincent Beffara
students Julien Dubédat
He became a member of the French Academy of
Sciences in 2008. He is also a member of other Yilin Wang
academies of sciences, including the Academy of
Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and is an honorary fellow of
Gonville and Caius College.[2][3][4] He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2020.[5]
Miscellaneous
He also had a part in the 1982 French film La Passante du Sans-Souci.[1] He has an Erdős–Bacon number
of six.
References
1. "Der Mann, der den Zufall beherrscht" ([Link]
den-zufall-beherrscht/story/11741686) [The man who masters randomness] (in German).
Der Bund. 21 April 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
2. "Wendelin Werner, 2006 Fields Medal Winner - CNRS press release" ([Link]
n/[Link]). Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
3. "Curriculum Vitae of Wendelin Werner" ([Link]
2018/[Link]) (PDF). International Mathematical Union.
Retrieved 1 August 2018.
4. "The Rollo Davidson Trust" ([Link] University of
Cambridge.
5. "Wendelin Werner" ([Link] Royal
Society. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
External links
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Wendelin Werner" ([Link]
[Link]/Biographies/Werner_Wendelin.html), MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive,
University of St Andrews
Wendelin Werner ([Link] at the Mathematics
Genealogy Project
Page at ETH ([Link]
La Passante du Sans-Souci ([Link] on [Link]
Wendelin Werner ([Link] at IMDb
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