Gregory Lawler

Gregory Lawler is George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Chicago. He arrived at the University of Chicago since 2006 after previously holding positions at Duke and Cornell Universities. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University. He specializes in probability theory and is best known for his work since 2000 on the Schramm-Loewner evolution. He laid the groundwork for the demonstration that rescaled percolation leads to conformally invariant, 2-dimensional fields. Along with Schramm and Werner, Lawler investigated the limit of lattice models that possess certain conformal invariance properties in the continuum limit. He received the 2006 SIAM George Pólya Prize with Oded Schramm and Wendelin Werner. His research is in fine properties of random walk and Brownian motion with an emphasis on problems arising in statistical physics. His books include “Intersections of Random Walks,” “Introduction to Stochastic Processes,” “Conformally Invariant Processes in the Plane,” and (with V. Limic) “Random Walk: A Modern Introduction.” He was a co-founder of the Electronic Journal of Probability and has served as editor-in-chief of Annals of Probability.  He is a member of the National Academy of Science and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.