Dapeng Zhan
Dapeng Zhan, assistant professor of mathematics, has been named a recipient of the Salem Prize from the the Institute for Advanced Study. The Salem Prize is awarded annually to young researchers for outstanding contributions to the field of analysis.
Zhan received the award, along with Julien Dubedat from Columbia University, in recognition of their outstanding work on the Schramm-Loewner Evolutions (SLE) and specifically for the proof of the reversibility and duality conjectures.
Schramm-Loewner Evolutions, introduced by Oded Schramm in 1999, generate a family of random fractal curves in the plane domains that satisfy conformal invariance. SLE with different parameters have been identified as the scaling limits of a number of critical two-dimensional lattice models such as Ising model, percolation, and Gaussian free field. The reversibility and duality conjectures describe two important properties of the SLE curves.
The Salem Prize is award by the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study – one of the world’s leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. IAS is a private, independent academic institution located in Princeton, New Jersey. Its more than 6,000 former Members hold positions of intellectual and scientific leadership throughout the academic world.
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