Jeremy Quastel | |
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 Quastel atNançay Radio Observatory in 2012 | |
| Born | December 20, 1963 (1963-12-20) (age 62) Canada |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Jeffery–Williams Prize 2019 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Diffusion of colour in the simple exclusion process (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan |
Jeremy Daniel QuastelFRS,FRSC is a Canadianmathematician specializing inprobability theory,stochastic processes,partial differential equations. He served as head of themathematics department at theUniversity of Toronto from 2017 until 2021.[1] He grew up inVancouver,British Columbia, and now lives inToronto,Ontario.
Quastel earned his PhD atCourant Institute of Mathematical Sciences atNew York University in 1990; the advisory wasS. R. Srinivasa Varadhan. He was a postdoctoral student at theMathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, then a faculty member atUniversity of California, Davis for the next six years;[2] returned to Canada in 1998.[3]
Jeremy Quastel is recognized as one of the top probabilists in the world in the fields ofhydrodynamic 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] Together with Konstantin Matetski and Daniel Remenik, Quastel gave an exact formulation of theKPZ fixed point in terms of its transition probabilities.[4]
Jeremy Quastel is the grandson of biochemistJuda Hirsch Quastel.
