Percy Deift
Percy Alec Deift | |
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| Born | September 10, 1945 Durban, South Africa |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (Ph.D.) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU |
| Thesis | Classical Scattering Theory with a Trace Condition (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Barry Simon |
Percy Alec Deift (born September 10, 1945)[1] is a mathematician known for his work on spectral theory, integrable systems, random matrix theory and Riemann–Hilbert problems.
Life
[edit | edit source]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.[2] He is a Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
Honors and awards
[edit | edit source]Deift is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society (elected 2012),[3] a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2003),[4] and of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (elected 2009).[5][6]
He is a co-winner of the 1998 Pólya Prize,[1][7] and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1999.[1][8] He gave an invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998[1][9][10] 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.[11] Deift gave the Gibbs Lecture at the Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society in 2009.[12] Along with Michael Aizenman and Giovanni Gallavotti, he won the Henri Poincare Prize in 2018.
Selected works
[edit | edit source]- with Eugene Trubowitz: Inverse scattering on the line, Communications on pure and applied Mathematics, vol. 32, 1979, pp. 121–251 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- with Fernando Lund, E. Trubowitz: Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- with Richard Beals, Carlos Tomei: Direct and inverse scattering on the line, AMS, 1988[13]
- with Luen-Chau Li, C. Tomei: Loop groups, discrete versions of some classical integrable systems, and rank 2 extensions, AMS, 1992
- with K. T-R McLaughlin: A continuum limit of the Toda lattice, AMS, 1998
- Orthogonal polynomials and random matrices: a Riemann-Hilbert approach, AMS (American Mathematical Society), 2000 (and Courant Institute, 1999)
- with Dmitri Gioev: Random matrix theory: invariant embeddings and universality, AMS, 2009[14]
- with Jinho Baik and Toufic Suidan Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ Percy Deft, NYU Arts & Science
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Courant’s Percy Deift Elected to National Academy of Sciences, NYU Today, vol. 22 (2009), no. 11. Accessed January 13, 2010.
- ^ Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 56 (2009), no. 7, p. 844
- ^ SIAM Awards Pólya Prize, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vo. 45 (1998), no. 10, p. 1363
- ^ Fellows list, Archived 2010-04-21 at the Wayback Machine John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Accessed January 13, 2010.
- ^ Professor Percy Deift Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Integrable Systems, Rigorous Asymptotics and Applications Workshop, August 22–23, 2004, University of Melbourne. Accessed January 13, 2010
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- ^ International Congress on Mathematical Physics - ICMP 2006
- ^ Deift to Deliver the Gibbs Lecture
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Percy Deift personal webpage, Courant Institute, New York University
- Percy Alec Deift, Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- 1945 births
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- South African mathematicians
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Princeton University alumni
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
- Living people
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society