Percy Deift

Deift was born in Durban, South Africa, where he obtained degrees in chemical engineering, physics, and mathematics, and received a Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Princeton University in 1977.[https://math.nyu.edu/people/profiles/DEIFT_Percy.html Percy Deft, NYU Arts & Science] He is a Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

Deift is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (elected 2012),[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2012-11-10. a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2003),{{cite book |chapter= Alphabetical Index of Active Members |title= Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences |date= Fall 2013 |chapter-url= https://www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/alphalist.pdf}} and of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected 2009).[http://www.nyu.edu/nyutoday/article/1804 Courant’s Percy Deift Elected to National Academy of Sciences], NYU Today, vol. 22 (2009), no. 11. Accessed January 13, 2010.[https://www.ams.org/notices/200907/rtx090700844p.pdf Mathematics People], Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 56 (2009), no. 7, p. 844

He is a co-winner of the 1998 Pólya Prize,[https://www.ams.org/notices/199810/people.pdf SIAM Awards Pólya Prize], Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vo. 45 (1998), no. 10, p. 1363

and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1999.[http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=d&page=6 Fellows list], {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421200032/http://www.gf.org/fellows/all?index=d |date=2010-04-21 }} John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Accessed January 13, 2010. He gave an invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998[http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~nsw/amsi2004/deift.html Professor Percy Deift], Integrable Systems, Rigorous Asymptotics and Applications Workshop, August 22–23, 2004, University of Melbourne. Accessed January 13, 2010{{cite book|author=Deift, P.|author2=Kriecherbauer, T.|author3=McLaughlin, K T.-R.|author4=Venakides, S.|author5=Zhou, X.|chapter=Uniform asymptotic for orthogonal polynomials|title=Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III|year=1998|pages=491–501|chapter-url=https://www.elibm.org/ft/10011605000}} and plenary addresses in 2006 at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid and at the International Congress on Mathematical Physics in Rio de Janeiro.[http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yasuyuki/icmp2006.htm International Congress on Mathematical Physics - ICMP 2006] Deift gave the Gibbs Lecture at the Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society in 2009.[http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm/deift Deift to Deliver the Gibbs Lecture] Along with Michael Aizenman and Giovanni Gallavotti, he won the Henri Poincare Prize in 2018.

• with Eugene Trubowitz: Inverse scattering on the line, Communications on pure and applied Mathematics, vol. 32, 1979, pp. 121–251 {{doi|10.1002/cpa.3160320202}}
• with Fernando Lund, E. Trubowitz: {{cite journal|title=Nonlinear wave equations and constrained harmonic motion|journal=Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|date=Feb 1980|volume=77|issue=2|pages=716–719|doi=10.1073/pnas.77.2.716 |url=http://www.pnas.org/content/77/2/716.full.pdf|pmc=348351|pmid=16592777 | last1 = Deift | first1 = P | last2 = Lund | first2 = F | last3 = Trubowitz | first3 = E|bibcode=1980PNAS...77..716D |doi-access=free}}
• with Richard Beals, Carlos Tomei: [https://books.google.com/books/about/Direct_and_Inverse_Scattering_on_the_Lin.html?id=i7LdRCmS2p8C Direct and inverse scattering on the line], AMS, 1988{{cite journal|author=Sachs, Robert L.|title=Review: Direct and inverse scattering on the line, by Richard Beals, Percy Deift, and Carlos Tomei|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.)|year=1990|volume=22|issue=2|pages=349–353|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1990-22-02/S0273-0979-1990-15908-7/S0273-0979-1990-15908-7.pdf|doi=10.1090/S0273-0979-1990-15908-7|doi-access=free}}
• with Luen-Chau Li, C. Tomei: [https://books.google.com/books/about/Loop_Groups_Discrete_Versions_of_Some_Cl.html?id=nfZPMOTm6dwC Loop groups, discrete versions of some classical integrable systems, and rank 2 extensions], AMS, 1992
• with K. T-R McLaughlin: [https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Continuum_Limit_of_the_Toda_Lattice.html?id=QIy03qAiMbcC A continuum limit of the Toda lattice], AMS, 1998
• [https://books.google.com/books/about/Orthogonal_Polynomials_and_Random_Matric.html?id=SBR8yv0LkFgC Orthogonal polynomials and random matrices: a Riemann-Hilbert approach], AMS (American Mathematical Society), 2000 (and Courant Institute, 1999)
• with Dmitri Gioev: [https://books.google.com/books/about/Random_Matrix_Theory.html?id=20RtpeOEvzwC Random matrix theory: invariant embeddings and universality], AMS, 2009{{cite journal|last=Basor|first= Estelle|author-link=Estelle Basor|title=Review: Random matrix theory: invariant embeddings and universality, by Percy Deift and Dmitri Gioev|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.)|year=2011|volume=48|issue=1|pages=147–152|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2011-48-01/S0273-0979-2010-01307-0/S0273-0979-2010-01307-0.pdf|doi=10.1090/s0273-0979-2010-01307-0|doi-access=free}}
• with Jinho Baik and Toufic Suidan {{cite book|title=Combinatorics and Random Matrix Theory|date=2016-06-22|publisher=American Mathematical Society|isbn=978-0-8218-4841-8|url=http://bookstore.ams.org/gsm-172/}}

• Riemann–Hilbert problems
• random matrix theory
• integrable systems

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• [http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/deift/ Percy Deift personal webpage], Courant Institute, New York University
• [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=33911 Percy Alec Deift], Mathematics Genealogy Project

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