Interview with Prof. Hugo Duminil-Copin on the occasion of this year’s Weierstrass Lecture
Photo (IHES, Marie-Claude Vergne): Prof. Hugo Duminil-Copin. Prof. Hugo Duminil-Copin, multiple award-winning mathematician and winner of the Fields Medal, is this year’s keynote speaker at the Paderborn Weierstrass Lecture on May 12. In an interview, he explains what he is researching, what percolation models are all about and why he is so fascinated by phase transitions.
You deal with the interface of probability theory, combinatorics and mathematical physics. What does that mean to a layperson?
Duminil-Copin: Mathematical physics is the study of objects motivated by physics using mathematics. Concretely, my research work focuses on the mathematical study of phase transitions. ...
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