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Geoffrey Grimmett
FRSOLY
Born
Geoffrey Richard Grimmett

(1950-12-20)20 December 1950(age 73)[1]
Birmingham,England, UK
NationalityBritish
Alma materMerton College, Oxford(BA,DPhil)
Spouse
Rosine Bonay
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(m.1986)​
[1][5]
ChildrenHugo Grimmett[5]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisRandom Fields and Random Graphs(1974)
Doctoral advisor
Websitewww.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~grg

Geoffrey Richard GrimmettFRS[6]OLY(born 20 December 1950)[1]is an English mathematician known for his work on the mathematics of random systems arising inprobability theory[7][8][9]andstatistical mechanics,especiallypercolation theory[10]and thecontact process.[11][2]He is theProfessor of Mathematical Statisticsin theStatistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge,and was theMasterofDowning College, Cambridge,from 2013 to 2018.[12]

Education

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Grimmett was educated atKing Edward's School, BirminghamandMerton College, Oxford.He graduated in 1971, and completed hisDPhilin 1974[13]under the supervision ofJohn HammersleyandDominic Welsh.[4]

Career and research

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Grimmett served as theIBMResearch FellowatNew College, Oxford,from 1974 to 1976 before moving to theUniversity of Bristol.[1][14]He was appointedProfessor of Mathematical Statisticsat theUniversity of Cambridgein 1992, becoming a fellow ofChurchill College, Cambridge.[15]He was Director of theStatistical Laboratoryfrom 1994 to 2000, Head of theDepartment of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics(DPMMS) from 2002 to 2007, and is a trustee of theRollo Davidson Prize.[16]

Grimmett is particularly recognised for his achievements in the rigorous theory of disordered physical systems.[6]Especially influential is his work on and aroundpercolation theory,the contact model for stochastic spatial epidemics, and the random-cluster model, a class that includes theIsing/Potts modelsofferromagnetism.[6]His monograph on percolation is a standard work in a core area of probability, and is widely cited.[6]His breadth within probability is emphasized by his important contributions to probabilisticcombinatoricsand probabilisticnumber theory.[6]

In October 2013 he was appointedMasterofDowning College, Cambridge,succeedingBarry Everitt.[5]He ended his term as Master on 30 September 2018, being replaced byAlan Bookbinder.[17]

He was appointed Chair of theHeilbronn Institute for Mathematical Researchin September 2020.[18]He was succeeded byCatherine Hobbson September 1 2023.[19]

Awards and honours

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Grimmett was awarded theRollo Davidson Prizein 1989[20]and elected aFellow of the Royal Society(FRS) in 2014.[6]

Personal life

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Grimmett is the son of Benjamin J Grimmett and Patricia W (Lewis) Grimmett.[21]

He competed at the1976 Summer OlympicsinMontrealas a member of theGreat BritainMen'sFoilTeam, finishing 6th.[22]

References

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  1. ^abcdeAnon (2014)."Grimmett, Prof. Geoffrey Richard".Who's Who(onlineOxford University Pressed.). Oxford: A & C Black.doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U18289.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
  2. ^abGeoffrey Grimmettpublications indexed byGoogle ScholarEdit this at Wikidata
  3. ^Grimmett, G. R.; McDiarmid, C. J. H. (2008). "On colouring random graphs".Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.77(2): 313.doi:10.1017/S0305004100051124.S2CID3421302.
  4. ^abGeoffrey Grimmettat theMathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^abcProfessor Geoffrey Grimmett elected as next Master
  6. ^abcdefAnon (2014)."Professor Geoffrey Grimmett FRS".royalsociety.org.London:Royal Society.Archived fromthe originalon 11 June 2018.Retrieved1 May2014.One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available underCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License."--Royal Society Terms, conditions and policiesat theWayback Machine(archived 2016-11-11)
  7. ^Grimmett, G. R.; Stirzaker, D. R. (2001).Probability and Random Processes.Oxford University Press.ISBN0198572220.
  8. ^Grimmett, G. R. (2010).Probability on Graphs.Cambridge University Press.ISBN978-0521147354.
  9. ^Aldous, David (2013)."Book Review:Probability on graphs: random processes on graphs and latticesby Geoffrey Grimmett ".Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.51(1): 173–175.doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01428-9.ISSN0273-0979.
  10. ^Grimmett, G. (1999). "What is Percolation?".Percolation.Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften. Vol. 321. pp. 1–31.doi:10.1007/978-3-662-03981-6_1.ISBN978-3-642-08442-3.
  11. ^"Geoffrey Grimmett's homepage at the University of Cambridge".
  12. ^Geoffrey Grimmettpublications indexed by theScopusbibliographic database.(subscription required)
  13. ^Grimmett, Geoffrey(1974).Random Fields and Random Graphs(DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.OCLC500458360.EThOSuk.bl.ethos.457489.Archived fromthe originalon 17 September 2018.Retrieved16 September2018.
  14. ^Frieze, A. M.; Grimmett, G. R. (1985)."The shortest-path problem for graphs with random arc-lengths".Discrete Applied Mathematics.10:57–77.doi:10.1016/0166-218X(85)90059-9.
  15. ^"Fellows of the Colleges: Churchill".Cambridge University Reporter.University of Cambridge. 2 October 2008.Retrieved7 May2009.
  16. ^"Trustees of the Rollo Davidson Trust".Archived fromthe originalon 29 September 2008.Retrieved7 May2009.
  17. ^"Downing College announces Master Elect".29 November 2017.
  18. ^"Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research | New Chair".
  19. ^"Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research | New Chair".
  20. ^"Rollo Davidson Awards 1976 – 2023".University of Cambridge Statistical Laboratory.Retrieved19 April2024.
  21. ^"Index entry".FreeBMD.ONS.Retrieved10 May2014.
  22. ^"SR/Olympic Sports".Archived fromthe originalon 20 October 2012.
Academic offices
Preceded by Master of Downing College, Cambridge
2013–2018 		Succeeded by

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