Mathematical Sciences Colloquium with 2014 Fields Medallist Professor Martin Hairer Event

Some physical and mathematical theories have the unfortunate feature that if one takes them at face value, many quantities of interest appear to be infinite. Various techniques, usually going under the common name of “renormalisation” have been developed over the years to address this, allowing mathematicians and physicists to tame these infinities. Professor Hairer will explore some of the mathematical aspects of these techniques and will see how they have recently been used to make precise analytical statements about the solutions of some equations whose meaning was not even clear until now.

Professor Martin Hairer is an Austrian mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis, in particular stochastic partial differential equations. He is Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, having previously held a position at the Courant Institute of New York University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2014.

The Fields Medal has often been described as the "mathematician's Nobel Prize" and is viewed as the highest honour a mathematician can receive.

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