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Gregory F. Lawler is the George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1976 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1979. His research primarily focuses on random walks and their continuous analogues, particularly Brownian motion and diffusions, with a special emphasis on processes arising in statistical physics. His work explores phenomena such as self-avoiding random walks, loop-erased random walks, uniform spanning trees, and percolation. Additionally, he investigates conformally invariant quantities, including the Schramm-Loewner evolution and the Gaussian free field, applying these concepts in various probability areas of mathematics, especially in complex analysis.
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