Английская Википедия:Allan Sly (mathematician)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Allan Murray Sly is an Australian mathematician and statistician specializing in probability theory. He is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2018.

Education and career

Sly was a member of the Australian team at the 1999 and 2000 International Mathematical Olympiads, earning an honourable mention and a silver medal respectively.Шаблон:R He attended Radford College, where he was dux of the year in 2000.Шаблон:R He then studied at Australian National University, winning the University Medal in 2004,Шаблон:R earning a bachelor's degree, and in 2006 earning a M.Phil.Шаблон:R

He completed his Ph.D. in 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, Spatial and Temporal Mixing of Gibbs Measures, was supervised by Elchanan Mossel.Шаблон:R

After postdoctoral study at Microsoft Research, he joined the statistics faculty at Berkeley in 2011, and moved to Princeton University as a professor of mathematics in 2016.Шаблон:R

Contributions

Sly's work has included research on finding clusters in networks, the use of information percolation to analyze the "cutoff" phenomenon in which Markov chains exhibit a sharp transition to their stationary distribution, embeddings of random sequences, and phase transitions for random instances of the satisfiability problem.Шаблон:R

Recognition

Sly won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2012.Шаблон:R He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2018 for "applying probability theory to resolve long-standing problems in statistical physics and computer science".Шаблон:R He is the winner of the 2019 Loeve prize.Шаблон:R

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