Scott Sheffield

Scott Sheffield ( born October 20, 1973) is an American mathematician who deals with probability theory.

Sheffield made ​​1998 his bachelor 's degree in mathematics at Harvard University and has received his doctorate from Stanford University with Amir Dembo 2003 ( Random surfaces: large Deviations and gradient Gibbs measure classifications ). After that, he was from 2002 to 2004 at Microsoft Research, 2004/2005 at the University of California, Berkeley, 2005/2006 Assistant Professor and from 2007 Associate Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and in 2006/2007 at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 2008 he became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 2006 he was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize for young probabilists for his work applying the Schramm - Loewner evolution (SLE ) in spatial stochastic models. In 2009, he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and 2011, the Loève Prize. He was Sloan Fellow.

He worked with, among others, Richard Kenyon, Oded Schramm, Gregory F. Lawler, Yuval Peres and the Fields Medal winners Andrei Okounkov and Wendelin Werner.

Writings

• Random Surfaces, astérisque, No. 304, 2006 ( 177 pages )
• Gaussian free fields for mathematicians, 2003
• Oded Schramm Contour lines of the two- dimensional discrete Gaussian free field, Acta Mathematica (Preprint 2006)