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Public Lectures
2006 establishing conformal invariance of the critical Ising model in two
dimensions, a well-known problem related to ferromagnetism.
He has been recognized many times throughout his career. In 1997 he was
awarded the Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society Young Mathematician
Prize. In 2001 he received the Clay Research Award, the Göran Gustafsson
Prize and the Salem Prize (joint with Oded Schramm) for his work in
percolation theory. He also received the Rollo Davidson Prize for young
probabilists in 2002.
In 2004, Smirnov was awarded the European Mathematical Society
Prize for, amongst other results, “the proof of existence and conformal
invariance of the scaling limit of crossing probabilities for critical percolation
on the triangular lattice. This gives a formula for the limiting values of
crossing probabilities, breakthrough in the field, which has allowed for
the verification of many conjectures of physicists, concerning power laws
and critical values of exponents”. In 2010, at the International Congress of
Mathematicians in Hyderabad, India, he received a Fields Medal for his
work on the mathematical foundations of statistical physics, particularly
finite lattice models. His citation read, “for the proof of conformal invariance
of percolation and the planar Ising model in statistical physics”.
From 1998-2005, Smirnov held a professorship at the Royal Institute of
Technology in Stockholm. Since 2003, he is a professor at the University of
Geneva, and also the Director of the Swiss National Centre of Competence
in Research “Mathematics of Physics” (SwissMAP)
Since 2010, he has also been scientific director of the Chebyshev Laboratory
and then the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at at the
St. Petersburg State University, and is taking active part in the organization
of the ICM2022 in St. Petersburg, which will directly follow the 8ECM.
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2006 establishing conformal invariance of the critical Ising model in two
dimensions, a well-known problem related to ferromagnetism.
He has been recognized many times throughout his career. In 1997 he was
awarded the Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society Young Mathematician
Prize. In 2001 he received the Clay Research Award, the Göran Gustafsson
Prize and the Salem Prize (joint with Oded Schramm) for his work in
percolation theory. He also received the Rollo Davidson Prize for young
probabilists in 2002.
In 2004, Smirnov was awarded the European Mathematical Society
Prize for, amongst other results, “the proof of existence and conformal
invariance of the scaling limit of crossing probabilities for critical percolation
on the triangular lattice. This gives a formula for the limiting values of
crossing probabilities, breakthrough in the field, which has allowed for
the verification of many conjectures of physicists, concerning power laws
and critical values of exponents”. In 2010, at the International Congress of
Mathematicians in Hyderabad, India, he received a Fields Medal for his
work on the mathematical foundations of statistical physics, particularly
finite lattice models. His citation read, “for the proof of conformal invariance
of percolation and the planar Ising model in statistical physics”.
From 1998-2005, Smirnov held a professorship at the Royal Institute of
Technology in Stockholm. Since 2003, he is a professor at the University of
Geneva, and also the Director of the Swiss National Centre of Competence
in Research “Mathematics of Physics” (SwissMAP)
Since 2010, he has also been scientific director of the Chebyshev Laboratory
and then the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at at the
St. Petersburg State University, and is taking active part in the organization
of the ICM2022 in St. Petersburg, which will directly follow the 8ECM.
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