Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Statistics at the University of Chicago
Gregory F. Lawler received his Ph.D. in 1979 under the direction of Edward Nelson at Princeton University. Before moving to Chicago in 2006 he held faculty positions at Duke University (1979--2001) and Cornell University (2001--2006). He has held visiting positions at many places including the Courant Institute, the University of British Columbia, the University of Cambridge, and several universities in France. He was awarded a Sloan Fellowship (1986), was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1991) and of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2005), and received the George Polya Prize from SIAM (2006, jointly with O. Schramm and W. Werner). He is a probabilist who studies fine properties of random walks and Brownian motion with a particular interest in processes with strong interactions arising in statistical physics. In the last decade, he has concentrated on the two-dimensional case where conformal invariance plays a crucial role. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing in 2002. He was a founding editor of the Electronic Journal of Probability, has served as editor-in-chief of the Annals of Probability, and is currently an editor for the Journal of the American Mathematical Society. As well as many papers, he has authored or co-authored six books