Martin Hairer
Austrian-British mathematician
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Hairer was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He attended the Collège Claparède Geneva where he received his high school diploma in 1994. He entered a school science competition with sound editing software that was developed into Amadeus, and later continued to maintain the software in addition to his academic work; it continued to be widely used as of 2020. He then attended the University of Geneva, where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in July 1998, Master of Science in Physics in October 1998 and PhD in Physics under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Eckmann in November 2001.
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Research and career
Hairer is active in the field of stochastic partial differential equations in particular, and in stochastic analysis and stochastic dynamics in general. He has worked on variants of Hörmander's theorem, systematisation of the construction of Lyapunov functions for stochastic systems, development of a general theory of ergodicity for non-Markovian systems, multiscale analysis techniques, theory of homogenisation, theory of path sampling and theory of rough paths and, in 2014, on his theory of regularity structures.
Under the name HairerSoft, he develops Macintosh software.
Affiliations
- Regius Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick (2014–2017)
- Member of the scientific steering committee of ETHZ-ITS (2013–2019)
- Institut Henri Poincaré, member of scientific steering committee (2012–2020)
- Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach, member of steering committee (2013–2021)
- Editor, Probability Theory and Related Fields
- Editor, Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications
- Editor, Annales Henri Poincaré Ser. B
- Editor, Electronic Journal of Probability
- Editor, Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Computations
- Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (December 2006 and February 2014)
- Visiting Professor, Technische Universität Berlin (July 2009)
- Visiting Professor, École Normale Supérieure, Paris (April 2013)
- Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (March – April 2014)
- Lipschitz Lectures, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn (July 2013)
- Minerva Lectures, Columbia University (February 2014)
- Euler Lecture, Zuse Institute Berlin (May 2014)
- Medallion Lecture, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (July 2014)
- Lévy Lecture, Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (July 2014)
- Fields Medal lecture, International Congress of Mathematicians, Seoul (August 2014)
- Collingwood Lecture, Durham University (February 2015)
- Bernoulli Lecture, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (May 2015)
- Leonardo da Vinci Lecture, University of Milan (October 2015)
- Kai-Lai Chung Lecture, Stanford University (November 2015)
- Michalik Lecture, University of Pittsburgh (December 2015)
Personal life
Hairer holds Austrian and British nationality, and speaks French, German and English; he married fellow mathematician Li Xue-Mei in 2003. His father is Ernst Hairer, a mathematician at the University of Geneva.