Ivan Corwin

Ivan Corwin
Born	(1984-05-24) May 24, 1984 Poughkeepsie, New York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	New York University, Harvard University
Awards	David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering (2014) Rollo Davidson Prize (2014) Poincare Chair (2014) Young Scientist Prize of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (2012) Clay Research Fellow (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	Columbia University
Doctoral advisor	Gerard Ben Arous

Ivan Zachary Corwin (born May 24, 1984) is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University.

Research

His research concerns probability, mathematical physics, quantum integrable systems, stochastic PDEs, and random matrix theory. He is particularly known for work related to the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation.

Education and career

Corwin was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. He graduated from Harvard University in 2006 receiving an A.B. in Mathematics, and subsequently received his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute at New York University under direction of Gerard Ben Arous. He held the first Schramm Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship at Microsoft Research, New England and MIT from 2012-2014, was a Clay Research Fellow from 2012-2016, and held the first Poincare Chair in 2014 at the Institute Henri Poincare. Corwin has taught at Columbia University since 2013.

Awards and honors

In 2014, Corwin was awarded a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering as well as the Rollo Davidson Prize. Also in that year, he was invited to present his work at the International Congress of Mathematicians. In 2012 he received that Young Scientist Prize of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.