Greg Lawler

Gregory Francis Lawler (* July 14, 1955 ) is an American mathematician who deals with probability theory.

Lawler studied at the University of Virginia ( BA 1976) and at Princeton University, where he received his doctorate in 1979 at Edward Nelson (A self Avoiding random walk ). After that, he was in 1979 at Duke University, most recently as a professor, and from 2001 at Cornell University. From 2006 he is a professor at the University of Chicago. He has been a visiting scientist and visiting professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Cambridge and at several French universities.

Lawler is concerned with the fine structure of random motion ( random walk, Brownian motion ), especially in the two-dimensional case and in processes with strong interactions as they occur in statistical physics. He is known for his work on Schramm - Loewner Evolution ( by Oded Schramm ). For this work he received the 2006 with Oded Schramm and Wendelin Werner the George Pólya Prize. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1991 ) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( 2005). In 1986 he was Sloan Fellow. In 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing ( Conformal Invariance, Universality and the dimension of the Brownian Frontier ). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

He was the founding editor of the Electronic Journal of Probability, was editor of the Annals of Probability, and is editor of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

• Introduction to stochastic processes, 1995, 2nd edition, Chapman and Hall 2006
• Intersections of random walks, Birkhäuser 1991, 1996
• Lester N. Coyle: Lectures on contemporary probability, AMS 1999