Jeremy Quastel
{{Short description|Canadian mathematician (born 1963)}}
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|fields = Mathematics
|workplaces = {{ubl|University of Toronto|UC Davis}}
|alma_mater = New York University
|doctoral_advisor = S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
|thesis_title = Diffusion of colour in the simple exclusion process
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|thesis_year = 1990
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Jeremy Daniel Quastel {{post-nominals|country=UK|FRS}}, {{post-nominals|country=CAN|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.{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/jeremy-quastel-35027|accessdate=Sep 17, 2024|title=Fellow Detail Page {{pipe}} Royal Society}} He grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario.
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; returned to Canada in 1998.
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. In particular, his research is on the large scale behaviour of interacting particle systems and stochastic partial differential equations. Together with Konstantin Matetski and Daniel Remenik, Quastel gave an exact formulation of the KPZ fixed point in terms of its transition probabilities.{{cite journal |doi=10.4310/acta.2021.v227.n1.a3 |date=2021 |publisher=International Press of Boston |volume=227|number=1 |pages=115–203 |first1=Konstantin |last1=Matetski |first2=Jeremy |last2=Quastel |first3=Daniel |last3=Remenik |arxiv=1701.00018 |title=The KPZ fixed point |journal=Acta Mathematica}}
Awards, distinctions, and recognitions
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2021){{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/jeremy-quastel-35027|title=Professor Jeremy Quastel FRS|accessdate=Dec 8, 2022}}
- CMS Jeffery–Williams Prize (2019){{Cite web|url=https://cms.math.ca/Prizes/info/jw.html|title= Jeffery-Williams Prize|website=Canadian Mathematical Society|accessdate=Feb 12, 2020}}
- CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (2018){{Cite web|url=https://www.pims.math.ca/news/professor-jeremy-quastel-named-winner-2018-crm-fields-pims-prize|title=Professor Jeremy Quastel Named Winner of the 2018 CRM - Fields - PIMS Prize|website=Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences|date=Dec 11, 2017|accessdate=Oct 21, 2019}}
- Royal Society of Canada Fellow (2016){{Cite web|url=https://thevarsity.ca/2016/09/25/eight-u-of-t-science-faculty-join-royal-society-of-canada-as-fellows/|title=Eight U of T science faculty join Royal Society of Canada as fellows|date=Sep 26, 2016|accessdate=Oct 21, 2019}}
- Killam Research Fellowship (2013) for his research of stochastic processes and partial differential equations used to describe natural processes of change and evolution{{Cite web|url=https://www.utoronto.ca/news/jeremy-quastel-leading-mathematician|title=Jeremy Quastel, leading mathematician|website=University of Toronto News|accessdate=Oct 21, 2019}}
- invited speaker at the Current Developments in Mathematics (2011){{Cite web|url=http://www.math.harvard.edu/cdm/cdm11.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406154514/http://www.math.harvard.edu/cdm/cdm11.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 6, 2012|title=CDM Conference 2011 (Current Developments in Mathematics)|website=www.math.harvard.edu|accessdate=Oct 21, 2019}}
- invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad (2010)
- Sloan Fellow (1996–98){{Cite web|url=http://www.math.toronto.edu/quastel/|title=Home Page of Jeremy Quastel|website=www.math.toronto.edu|accessdate=Oct 21, 2019}}
Family
Jeremy Quastel is the grandson of biochemist Juda Hirsch Quastel.
Sources
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External links
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