Fields Medalist Martin Hairer Visited Department of Applied Mathematics
Martin Hairer, who won the Fields Medal in 2014, visited Illinois Tech鈥檚 Department of Applied Mathematics on October 27 to meet with faculty and students and deliver a lecture, 鈥淓rgodic theory of singular stochastic PDEs.鈥 The Fields Medal is regarded as the highest honor a mathematician can receive鈥搕he 鈥淣obel Prize in math,鈥 as there is no Nobel Prize in math.
Hairer developed a mathematical theory for singular stochastic partial differential equations, so that solutions to these equations make sense. This allows for stochastic modeling of various mechanisms in science and engineering.
Hairer is currently the Regius Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics Department, University of Warwick. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and has received many other honors and awards. He also created the sound-editing program Amadeus.
Jinqiao (Jeffrey) Duan, professor of applied mathematics, hosted the visit.
Duan (left) and Hairer.
