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Personal Profile of Gregory F Lawler

Biography
Greg Lawler is the George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Chicago after previously holding positions at Duke and Cornell Universities. He received his BA in 1976 from the University of Virginia and his PhD in mathematics from Princeton University in 1979.

His research is in fine properties of random walk and Brownian motion with an emphasis on problems arising in statistical physics. His books include "Intersections of Random Walks," "Introduction to Stochastic Processes," "Conformally Invariant Processes in the Plane," and (with V. Limic) "Random Walk: A Modern Introduction." He was a co-founder of the "Electronic Journal of Probability" and has served as editor-in-chief of "Annals of Probability" and an editor of the "Journal of the American Mathematical Society."

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was a co-recipient of the 2006 George Polya prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the 2019 Wolf Prize in Mathematics.
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Past Committee Membership
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Scientific Advisory Committee Jul 01, 2014 Jun 30, 2018
  1. Summer Graduate School Random Conformal Geometry (Virtual School)

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    Jul 26, 2021
    Monday
    09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
      The TLAs of the Conformally Invariant World: Lecture 1
    Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)
    Jul 27, 2021
    Tuesday
    07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
      The TLAs of the Conformally Invariant World: Lecture 2
    Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)
    09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
      The TLAs of the Conformally Invariant World: Lecture 3
    Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)
    Jul 28, 2021
    Wednesday
    09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
      The TLAs of the Conformally Invariant World: Lecture 4
    Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)
    Jul 29, 2021
    Thursday
    09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
      The TLAs of the Conformally Invariant World: Lecture 5
    Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)
  2. Workshop Critical Percolation and Conformally Invariant Processes

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    May 03, 2001
    Thursday
    02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
      SLE and the self-avoiding walk
    Gregory Lawler (University of Chicago)