Wendelin Werner is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain he received the Fields Medal. He is currently professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay and part-time at the École Normale Supérieure. Werner became a French national in 1977. Wikipedia
The winners are Andrei Okounkov of Princeton University; Terence Tao from the University of California, Los Angeles; and Wendelin Werner of the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, France. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5274040.stm
The Fields Medal, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for the field of mathematics(1), has been awarded to Wendelin Werner , professor and researcher at the Laboratoire de mathématiques [Mathematics Laboratory] of the Orsay Faculty of Science (Université Pa www2.cnrs.fr/en/656.htm
Lawler, Schramm and Werner received the prize for their groundbreaking work on the development and application of stochastic Loewner evolution (SLE). www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/sfia-gfl071806.php
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