The George Pòlya Prize for Mathematics is awarded every four years by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Rémi Rhodes is the winner in 2022.
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A visit to Paris before returning home
Rémi Rhodes is a professor at Aix-Marseille Université and a researcher in the Probability team of the Mathematics of Randomness group at the Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille (I2M, AMU/Centrale/CNRS). A native of the region, he defended his thesis in 2006 at the University of Provence under the supervision of Etienne Pardoux, before obtaining a position as lecturer at the University of Paris Dauphine the following year, where he also obtained his habilitation to direct research. Working at the Laboratoire d'analyse et de mathématiques appliquées at the Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée, he finally returned to his hometown in 2018.
Proving the validity of the DOZZ formula
Along with his collaborators, Antti Kupiainen and Vincent Vargas, Rémi Rhodes is co-winner of the George Pòlya 2022 Prize for Mathematics, a prize awarded every four years for a significant contribution in a mathematical field. Rewarded for their long-term work on Liouville's quantum field theory, they succeeded in proving the validity of the DOZZ formula. Theorized by physicists since 1994, this formula makes it possible to calculate the structure constants (sort of elementary bricks) of Liouville's theory.
The prize will be awarded at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, to be held in hybrid from July 11 to 15, 2022, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Article originally published in Lettre d'AMU, February 2022.
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