Jeremy Quastel
Canadian mathematician (born 1963)
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Jeremy Daniel Quastel FRS, FRSC is a Canadian mathematician specializing in probability theory, stochastic processes, partial differential equations. He served as head of the mathematics department at the University of Toronto from 2017 until 2021.[1] He grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Jeremy Quastel | |
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Quastel at Nançay Radio Observatory in 2012 | |
| Born | December 20, 1963 (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 |
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] Together with Konstantin Matetski and Daniel Remenik, Quastel gave an exact formulation of the KPZ fixed point in terms of its transition probabilities.[4]
Awards, distinctions, and recognitions
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) John C. Polanyi Award (2025)[5]
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2021)[6]
- CMS Jeffery–Williams Prize (2019)[7]
- CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (2018)[2]
- Royal Society of Canada Fellow (2016)[8]
- Killam Research Fellowship (2013) for his research of stochastic processes and partial differential equations used to describe natural processes of change and evolution[9]
- invited speaker at the Current Developments in Mathematics (2011)[10]
- invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad (2010)
- Sloan Fellow (1996–98)[3]
Family
Jeremy Quastel is the grandson of biochemist Juda Hirsch Quastel.