Prof. David Brydges
Fellow
Current Employer
The University of British Columbia
Election Year
2007
Academy
Académie des sciences
Discipline
Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Department
Department of Mathematics
Keywords
Quantum field theory, statistical mechanics
Long Citation
David Brydges is an outstanding mathematical physicist with a sustained record spanning thirty years of inventive and highly creative achievements in the fields of constructive quantum field theory and mathematical statistical mechanics. He is particularly known for his introduction of new techniques, including random walk representations in spin systems, the lace expansion, and mathematically rigorous non-perturbative implementations of the renormalization group. His work on quantum field theories, self-avoiding walks, branched polymers and Coulomb systems established many of the fundamental properties of these systems and laid the foundation for much important subsequent work by him and others.
Short Citation
David Brydges is an outstanding mathematical physicist with a sustained record spanning thirty years of inventive and highly creative achievements in the fields of constructive quantum field theory and mathematical statistical mechanics. He is particularly known for his introduction of new techniques, including random walk representations in spin systems, the lace expansion, and mathematically rigorous non-perturbative implementations of the renormalization group.
David Brydges is an outstanding mathematical physicist with a sustained record spanning thirty years of inventive and highly creative achievements in the fields of constructive quantum field theory and mathematical statistical mechanics. He is particularly known for his introduction of new techniques, including random walk representations in spin systems, the lace expansion, and mathematically rigorous non-perturbative implementations of the renormalization group. His work on quantum field theories, self-avoiding walks, branched polymers and Coulomb systems established many of the fundamental properties of these systems and laid the foundation for much important subsequent work by him and others.
Short Citation
David Brydges is an outstanding mathematical physicist with a sustained record spanning thirty years of inventive and highly creative achievements in the fields of constructive quantum field theory and mathematical statistical mechanics. He is particularly known for his introduction of new techniques, including random walk representations in spin systems, the lace expansion, and mathematically rigorous non-perturbative implementations of the renormalization group.
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