Gérard Ben Arous

Leading probabilist who has made several important and fundamental contributions to probability theory and statistical physics. Areas include degenerate diffusions satisfying Hormander's hypo-ellipticity criterion, statistics of eigenvalues of random matrices, non-commutative probability, the property of aging that shows up as differing behavior of correlation decay in different time scales and universality of statistical phenomena that is present in many different contexts. He has recent contributions to random walks in random environments and fluctuations in certain growth models related to the KPZ equation.