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 (1944–1970).

Rollo Davidson Trust

In 1970, Rollo Davidson, 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 establis ...

died on

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, a mountain in Switzerland. 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 The Thomas Bond Sprague Prize is a prize awarded annually to the student or students showing the greatest distinction in actuarial science, finance, insurance, mathematics of operational research, probability, risk and statistics in the Master ...

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List of recipients of the Rollo Davidson Prize

* 1976 – Brian D. Ripley * 1977 – Olav Kallenberg * 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 4 ...

* 1980 – David Aldous and Erik Jørgensen * 1981 – John C. Gittins * 1982 –

Rouben V. Ambartzumian Rouben V. Ambartzumian ( Armenian: ; rus, Рубен В. Амбарцумян}) (born 1941) is an Armenian mathematician and Academician of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. He works in Stochastic Geometry and Integral Geometry where he ...

and Persi Diaconis * 1983 – Ed Perkins * 1984 –

Martin Thomas Barlow Martin Thomas Barlow FRS FRSC (born 16 June 1953 in London) is a British mathematician who is professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Canada since 1992. History Barlow is the son of Andrew Dalmahoy Barlow (1916–2006) ...

and

Chris Rogers Chris Rogers may refer to: * Chris Rogers (cricketer) (born 1977), Australian cricketer * Chris Rogers (jockey) (1924–1976), thoroughbred horse racing jockey * Chris Rogers (journalist) (born 1975), British newscaster * Chris Rogers (mathematicia ...

* 1985 –

Piet Groeneboom Petrus (Piet) Groeneboom (born 24 September 1941 in Scheveningen) is a Dutch statistician who made major advances in the field of shape-constrained statistical inference such as isotonic regression, and also worked in probability theory. Educa ...

and Terence John Lyons * 1986 – Peter Hall and

Jean-François Le Gall Jean-François Le Gall (born 15 November 1959) is a French mathematician working in areas of probability theory such as Brownian motion, Lévy processes, superprocesses and their connections with partial differential equations, the Brownian snake ...

* 1987 – Yao-chi Yu,

Jie-zhong Zou Jie-zhong Zou (born October 15, 1947) is a mathematician known for his research on mathematical probability theory and its applications, in particular in topics such as homogeneous Markov chains, queuing theory and mathematical finance. He enter ...

, and Andrew Carverhill * 1988 – Peter Baxendale,

Imre Z. Ruzsa Imre Z. Ruzsa (born 23 July 1953) is a Hungarian mathematician specializing in number theory. Life Ruzsa participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad for Hungary, winning a silver medal in 1969, and two consecutive gold medals with pe ...

, and

Gábor J. Székely Gábor J. Székely (; born February 4, 1947, in Budapest) is a Hungarian-American statistician/ mathematician best known for introducing energy statistics (E-statistics). Examples include: the distance correlation,Székely and Rizzo (2009). wh ...

* 1989 – Geoffrey Grimmett 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 and Robin Pemantle * 1994 –

Thomas Mountford Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

and

Laurent Saloff-Coste Laurent Saloff-Coste (born 1958) is a French mathematician whose research is in Analysis, Probability theory, and Geometric group theory. Saloff-Coste received his "doctorat de 3eme cycle" in 1983 at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris V ...

* 1995 – Philippe Biane and Yuval Peres * 1996 – Bruce Driver and Jean Bertoin * 1997 – James Norris and * 1998 –

Davar Khoshnevisan Davar Khoshnevisan (born 21 July 1964) is an American mathematician. Biography Khoshnevisan completed bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematical sciences at Johns Hopkins University and a doctorate at the University of California, Berkele ...

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 mathematic ...

* 1999 –

Raphaël Cerf Raphaël Cerf is a French mathematician at Paris-Sud 11 University. For his contributions to probability theory, he won the Rollo Davidson Prize The Rollo Davidson Prize is a prize awarded annually to early-career probabilists by the Rollo Dav ...

and Gareth Roberts * 2000 – Kurt Johansson and David Wilson * 2001 –

Richard Kenyon Richard W. Kenyon (born 1964) is an American mathematician known for his contributions in combinatorics and probability theory. He is the Erastus L. DeForest Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. Kenyon graduated from Rice University and ...

* 2002 – Stanislav Smirnov and

Balaji Prabhakar S.Balaji may refer to Religion * Venkateswara, one of the incarnations of Vishnu ** Balaji Mandir (disambiguation), a list of temples Organisations * Balaji Wafers, a FMCG group based in Rajkot, Gujarat * Balaji Institute of Modern Managem ...

* 2003 – Alice Guionnet * 2004 – Alexander Holroyd and Itai Benjamini * 2005 – Olle Häggström and

Neil O'Connell Neil Michael O'Connell is an Irish mathematician from Shannon, County Clare. He attended Trinity College Dublin, and was elected to scholarship in 1987. He earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and a gold medal in 1989 and completed an M.Sc ...

* 2006 –

Scott Sheffield Scott Sheffield (born October 20, 1973) is a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His primary research field is theoretical probability. Research Much of Sheffield's work examines conformal invariant objects w ...

* 2007 –

Remco van der Hofstad Remco Industries, Inc. was a toy company in the United States founded in the 1940s. It was best known for toys marketed and sold in the late 1950s and early 1960s, like the 'Johnny Reb Cannon', 'Mighty Matilda Atomic Aircraft Carrier', 'Remco Vo ...

* 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 ...

* 2009 –

Grégory Miermont Grégory Miermont (born 16 July 1979) is a French mathematician working on probability, random trees and random maps. Biography After high school, Miermont trained for two years at Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles at the end of which he ...

* 2010 –

Sourav Chatterjee Sourav Chatterjee (born November 1979) is an Indian mathematician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probability theory. Chatterjee is credited with work on the study of fluctuations in random structures, concentration and super-conce ...

and

Gady Kozma Gady Kozma is an Israeli mathematician. Kozma obtained his PhD in 2001 at the University of Tel Aviv with Alexander Olevskii. He is a scientist at the Weizmann Institute. In 2005, he demonstrated the existence of the scaling limit value (t ...

* 2011 –

Christophe Garban Christophe may refer to: People * Christophe (given name), list of people with this name * Christophe (singer) (1945–2020), French singer * Cristophe (hairstylist) (born 1958), Belgian hairstylist * Georges Colomb (1856–1945), French comic str ...

and Gábor Pete * 2012 – and Hugo Duminil-Copin * 2013 – Eyal Lubetzky and Allan Sly * 2014 –

Paul Bourgade Paul may refer to: * Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) * Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chr ...

and

Ivan Corwin Ivan Zachary Corwin (born May 24, 1984) is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. Research His research concerns probability, mathematical physics, quantum integrable systems, stochastic PDEs, and random matrix theory. He is particu ...

* 2015 – Nicolas Curien and Jason Miller * 2016 – Omer Angel,

Jean-Christophe Mourrat ''Jean-Christophe'' (1904‒1912) is the novel in 10 volumes by Romain Rolland for which he received the Prix Femina in 1905 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. It was translated into English by Gilbert Cannan. The first four volumes a ...

, and

Hendrik Weber Hendrik Weber (born 1975 in Bad Wildungen, Germany),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 Nicolas or Nicolás may refer to: People Given name * Nicolas (given name) Mononym * Nicolas (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer * Nicolas (footballer, born 2000), Brazilian footballer Surname Nicolas * Dafydd Nicolas (c.1705–17 ...

* 2019 –

Tom Hutchcroft Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character ...

and Vincent Tassion * 2020 – Roland Bauerschmidt and

Ewain Gwynne Sir Ywain , also known as Yvain and Owain among other spellings (''Ewaine'', ''Ivain'', ''Ivan'', ''Iwain'', ''Iwein'', ''Uwain'', ''Uwaine'', etc.), is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, wherein he is often the son of King Uri ...

* 2021 – Ioan Manolescu and

Daniel Remenik Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), ...

* 2022 –

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and Konstantin Tikhomirov

List of Rollo Davidson Lecturers

* 1996 Persi Diaconis * 2001

* 2010 Stanislav Smirnov * 2015 Yuval Peres

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