The Rollo Davidson Prize is a prize awarded annually to early-career probabilists by the Rollo Davidson trustees. It is named after English mathematician

Rollo Davidson Rollo Davidson (b. Bristol, 8 October 1944, d. Piz Bernina, 29 July 1970) was a probabilist, alpinist, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died aged 25 on Piz Bernina. He is known for his work on semigroups, stochastic geomet ...

(1944–1970).

Rollo Davidson Trust

In 1970,

, a Fellow-elect of

Churchill College, Cambridge Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It has a primary focus on science, engineering and technology, but still retains a strong interest in the arts and humanities. In 1958, a trust was establish ...

died on

Piz Bernina Piz Bernina ( Romansh, it, Pizzo Bernina, ) is the highest mountain in the Eastern Alps, the highest point of the Bernina Range, and the highest peak in the Rhaetian Alps. It rises and is located south of Pontresina and near the major Alpine r ...

, a mountain in

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. In 1975, a trust fund was established at Churchill College in his memory, endowed initially through the publication in his honour of two volumes of papers, edited by E. F. Harding and D. G. Kendall. The Rollo Davidson Trust has awarded an annual prize to young probabilists since 1976, and has organized occasional lectures in honour of Davidson. Since 2012 the Trust has also awarded an annual Thomas Bond Sprague Prize.http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2011-12/weekly/6273/section12.shtml#heading2-35 Cambridge University Reporter CLXII no 38

List of recipients of the Rollo Davidson Prize

* 1976 –

Brian D. Ripley Brian David Ripley FRSE (born 29 April 1952) is a British statistician. From 1990, he was professor of applied statistics at the University of Oxford and is also a professorial fellow at St Peter's College, Oxford, St Peter's College. He retired ...

* 1977 –

Olav Kallenberg Olav Kallenberg (born 1939) is a probability theorist known for his work on exchangeable stochastic processes and for his graduate-level textbooks and monographs. Kallenberg is a professor of mathematics at Auburn University in Alabama in the US ...

* 1978 – Zhen-ting Hou * 1979 –

Frank Kelly Francis Kelly (28 December 1938 – 28 February 2016) was an Irish actor, singer and writer, whose career covered television, radio, theatre, music, screenwriting and film. He is best remembered for playing Father Jack Hackett in the Channel ...

* 1980 –

David Aldous David John Aldous FRS (born 13 July 1952) is a mathematician known for his research on probability theory and its applications, in particular in topics such as exchangeability, weak convergence, Markov chain mixing times, the continuum random ...

and Erik Jørgensen * 1981 –

John C. Gittins John Charles Gittins (born 1938) is a researcher in applied probability and operations research, who is a professor and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford University. He is renowned as the developer of the "Gittins index", which is used for ...

* 1982 – Rouben V. Ambartzumian and

Persi Diaconis Persi Warren Diaconis (; born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly known f ...

* 1983 –

Ed Perkins Edwin Arend Perkins, (born 31 August 1953) is a Canadian mathematician who has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia since 1989 and Canada Research Chair in Probability since 2001. He was elected to the Royal Soc ...

* 1984 – Martin Thomas Barlow and Chris Rogers * 1985 – Piet Groeneboom and Terence John Lyons * 1986 – Peter Hall and Jean-François Le Gall * 1987 – Yao-chi Yu, Jie-zhong Zou, and

Andrew Carverhill Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derived ...

* 1988 –

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, Imre Z. Ruzsa, and Gábor J. Székely * 1989 –

Geoffrey Grimmett Geoffrey Richard Grimmett (born 20 December 1950) is a mathematician known for his work on the mathematics of random systems arising in probability theory and statistical mechanics, especially percolation theory and the contact process. He is ...

and Rémi Léandre * 1990 – Steven Evans * 1991 –

Alain-Sol Sznitman Alain-Sol Sznitman (born 13 December 1955) is a French and Swiss mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich. His research concerns probability theory and mathematical physics.

* 1992 – Krzysztof Burdzy * 1993 –

Gérard Ben Arous Gérard Ben Arous (born 26 June 1957) is a French mathematician, specializing in stochastic analysis and its applications to mathematical physics. He served as the director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York Universit ...

and Robin Pemantle * 1994 – Thomas Mountford and Laurent Saloff-Coste * 1995 –

Philippe Biane Philippe Biane (born 1962) is a French mathematician known for his contributions in probability theory and group representation. He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1995, together with Yuval Peres Yuval Peres ( he, יובל פרס; born 5 ...

and

Yuval Peres Yuval Peres ( he, יובל פרס; born 5 October 1963) is a mathematician known for his research in probability theory, ergodic theory, mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science, and in particular for topics such as fractals and Hausd ...

* 1996 –

Bruce Driver Bruce Douglas Driver (born April 29, 1962) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League from 1983–84 until 1997–98. Early life When he was 12, Driver played in the 1975 Quebec I ...

and

Jean Bertoin Jean Bertoin (born 1961) is a French mathematician, specializing in probability theory. Education and career Bertoin received in 1987 his doctorate from University of Paris VI under Marc Yor with ''Étude des processus de Dirichlet''. Bertoin taug ...

* 1997 – James Norris and * 1998 – Davar Khoshnevisan and

Wendelin Werner Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a German-born French mathematician working on random processes such as self-avoiding random walks, Brownian motion, Schramm–Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematica ...

* 1999 – Raphaël Cerf and Gareth Roberts * 2000 –

Kurt Johansson Kurt Ivar Björn Johansson (25 February 1914 – 8 August 2011) was a Swedish shooter who competed at the 1948, 1960 and 1968 Olympics. In 1948 in London he placed fourth in the free rifle, three positions, 300 m event. In 1960 he finished 19t ...

and David Wilson * 2001 – Richard Kenyon * 2002 –

Stanislav Smirnov Stanislav Konstantinovich Smirnov (russian: Станисла́в Константи́нович Cмирно́в; born 3 September 1970) is a Russian mathematician currently working at the University of Geneva. He was awarded the Fields Medal in ...

and

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* 2003 –

Alice Guionnet Alice Guionnet (born 24 May 1969) is a French mathematician known for her work in probability theory, in particular on large random matrices. Biography Guionnet entered the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) in 1989. She earned her PhD in 1995 ...

* 2004 – Alexander Holroyd and

Itai Benjamini Itai Benjamini is an Israeli mathematician who holds the Renee and Jay Weiss Chair in the Department of Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Benjamini completed his Ph.D. in 1992 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervi ...

* 2005 – Olle Häggström and Neil O'Connell * 2006 – Scott Sheffield * 2007 – Remco van der Hofstad * 2008 – Brian Rider and

Bálint Virág Bálint Virág (born 1973) is a Hungarian mathematician working in Canada, known for his work in probability theory, particularly determinantal processes, random matrix theory, and random walks and other probabilistic questions on groups. He recei ...

* 2009 – Grégory Miermont * 2010 – Sourav Chatterjee and Gady Kozma * 2011 – Christophe Garban and Gábor Pete * 2012 – and

Hugo Duminil-Copin Hugo Duminil-Copin (born 26 August 1985) is a French mathematician specializing in probability theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022. Biography The son of a middle school sports teacher and a former female dancer who became a primary ...

* 2013 – Eyal Lubetzky and Allan Sly * 2014 – Paul Bourgade and Ivan Corwin * 2015 – Nicolas Curien and Jason Miller * 2016 – Omer Angel, Jean-Christophe Mourrat, and Hendrik Weber * 2017 – Jian Ding and

Nike Sun Nike Sun is a probability theorist who works as an associate professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on leave from the department of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. She won the Rollo Davidson Pri ...

* 2018 – Nicolas Perkowski * 2019 – Tom Hutchcroft and Vincent Tassion * 2020 – Roland Bauerschmidt and Ewain Gwynne * 2021 – Ioan Manolescu and Daniel Remenik * 2022 – Amol Aggarwal and Konstantin Tikhomirov

List of Rollo Davidson Lecturers

* 1996

* 2001

* 2010

* 2015

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rollo Davidson Prize Awards established in 1976 Mathematical awards and prizes of the University of Cambridge Churchill College, Cambridge *

Rollo Davidson Trust

List of recipients of the Rollo Davidson Prize

List of Rollo Davidson Lecturers

See also

References