Jeremy Quastel

Jeremy Daniel Quastel FRS, FRSC is a Canadian mathematician specializing in probability theory, stochastic processes, partial differential equations. He is currently head of the mathematics department at the University of Toronto.[1] He grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Jeremy Quastel
Quastel at Nançay Radio Observatory in 2012
BornDecember 20, 1963 (1963-12-20) (age 59)
Canada
Alma materNew York University
Children2
AwardsJeffery–Williams Prize 2019
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions
ThesisDiffusion of colour in the simple exclusion process (1990)
Doctoral advisorS. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

Career

Quastel earned his PhD at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in 1990; the advisory was S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan. He was a postdoctoral student at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, then a faculty member at University of California, Davis for the next six years;[2] returned to Canada in 1998.[3]

Research

Jeremy Quastel is recognized as one of the top probabilists in the world in the fields of hydrodynamic theory, stochastic partial differential equations, and integrable probability.[2] In particular, his research is on the large scale behaviour of interacting particle systems and stochastic partial differential equations.[3]

Awards, distinctions, and recognitions

Family

Jeremy Quastel is the grandson of biochemist Juda Hirsch Quastel.

Sources
  1. "Faculty". Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
  2. "Professor Jeremy Quastel Named Winner of the 2018 CRM - Fields - PIMS Prize". Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. Dec 11, 2017. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
  3. "Home Page of Jeremy Quastel". www.math.toronto.edu. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
  4. "Professor Jeremy Quastel FRS". Retrieved Dec 8, 2022.
  5. "Jeffery-Williams Prize". Canadian Mathematical Society. Retrieved Feb 12, 2020.
  6. "Eight U of T science faculty join Royal Society of Canada as fellows". Sep 26, 2016. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
  7. "Jeremy Quastel, leading mathematician". University of Toronto News. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
  8. "CDM Conference 2011 (Current Developments in Mathematics)". www.math.harvard.edu. Retrieved Oct 21, 2019.
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